Word: feng
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ching Street was undeniably momentous. As part of a continuing campaign to deglorify Mao Tsetung, the poster dared for the first time to criticize the late Great Helmsman by name for serious political mistakes. Indirectly, in a move that could have ominous repercussions, the poster also criticized Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's chosen successor as Party Chairman and Premier...
...principal architect of this new policy is Teng, who has clearly emerged as China's strongman, overshadowing Mao's titular successor as Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng. Teng has given supreme priority to reversing the disruptive effects of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which was zealously pursued for more than ten years by Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, and her radical colleagues. Twice toppled from power by the radicals, in 1966 and 1976, Teng has stepped from the political shadows, not only to supervise the disgracing of Chiang's Gang of Four...
...real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union's expansionist designs on the one hand and its own economic backwardness on the other. To achieve this, Peking was willing to make a great leap outward. Not long ago, China's titular leader, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, traveled to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, making deals, offering Chinese friendship. Now it was Teng's turn...
...There is peace on his face but malice in his heart." That was how Pravda characterized Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, whose state visits to Yugoslavia and Rumania last summer sparked the current round of denunciations. Last week the Soviet defense ministry newspaper Red Star declared that "Mao's heirs continue talking about the inevitability of another world war in order to justify extremely dangerous practical actions, namely, Peking's persistent efforts to stop the process of detente." Red Star expressed horror at "China's worship, close to religious ecstasy...
...inhabiting a land mass only slightly larger than the U.S. It is of course a Communist nation long opposed to America. It is an authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons and the once ubiquitous little Red Book of Mao's quotations are seldom seen today. The people professedly live and work by Mao-Marxist cliches insisting that everyone's labor is for the greater good of socialism. In reality...