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Sadly, intellectuals who have tried their best to follow the unpredictable twists and turns of Chinese politics have often fared badly. A poignant example: China's greatest living philosopher, Feng Yulan, 83, who has fallen into disgrace for the third time in his career. In 1957, after Mao ended his "hundred flowers" campaign, Feng was branded a rightist. Bowing to the winds of change, the Columbia-educated author of the renowned two-volume A History of Chinese Philosophy repudiated his life's work. During the Cultural Revolution, Feng was denounced as a counterrevolutionary; once again he confessed abjectly...
...factories and farms, Schell got to know Chinese citizens outside the bureaucracy, and he draws their portraits with a great deal of sensitivity. There is Hsaio Ti, whose dedication to building socialism will keep him from marrying, he says, until he is at least 30. There is Yu Shao-feng, a young woman working in the factory who grows uncomfortable around the strange American. There is Comerade Hung, an agricultural specialist who has been sent down from the universities to help Tachai build up its orchards, and who isn't completely happy in his exile to the countryside. And there...
That was the explanation offered last week by Chairman Hua Kuo-feng for the postponement until next spring of the convocation of the Fifth National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament. The agenda will be pure formality: primarily, approving Cabinet appointments already made by party leaders. More time was needed to elect delegates to the congress, said Hua, because of relentless "interference and sabotage" by followers of the Gang of Four, headed by Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and the Antiparty Clique of the late Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...
With that swift work, the short, stocky, usually smiling Wang disposed of the leaders of the radicals in the post-Mao struggle for power in China and opened the way for the triumph that Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his so-called moderates celebrated at the eleventh Party Congress. There, Wang also got his reward: he was named one of the four party vice chairmen and placed on the Standing Committee, which runs China's 35 million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised...