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April 15, 1989: Former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang dies. Students take to the streets initially to mourn his death, but protesters soon begin to demand democratic reforms from Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Hu had resigned his office in 1987 after student protests.
Consequently MacFarquhar predicts a major crisis of leadership and of succession within five years. He says Deng had to use up virtually all of his political capital to maintain control during the crisis, and that no one of Deng's stature is waiting in the wings to take a firm...
The army was divided as to how to handle the Tiananmen protests, and MacFarquhar says military leaders are almost certainly still split. "When Deng Xiaoping dies, that essential lid on top of this boiling cauldron will be taken off," he says.
One year after the bloody crackdown that silenced China's nascent democracy movement, a divided Communist Party leadership is attempting to stifle dissent while it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial...
She was alone, in an acting empyrean, in George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh...