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...September 1976, only a few months after Zhou Enlai. The opening to the West had been legitimized while Mao was still alive as "the revolutionary line of chairman Mao," but after his death a brief struggle broke out between his widow and three of her more radical cohorts ("the gang of four") on the one hand and the Party hierarchy whom they deposed in the Cultural Revolution...
...even more momentous than the opening to China was the unprecedented economic performance by Japan and the East Asian "Gang of Four" (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore). By the end of the 1970s, Japan was producing about almost ten million cars, about one hundred times the car production 20 years earlier. From a nonexistent steel production in the early '50s, Japan was producing by the end of the 70s about as much steel as all of Europe combined or as much as the United States, but in much more modern facilities. It was producing more ship-building tonnage than...
...program. Said he: "During the Cultural Revolution, many of the schools were closed, most of the spare-time sports academies were closed, and for five years there was no training for our gymnasts. Our men's team has one gymnast who is 30. He started gymnastics before the Gang of Four. The rest are very young, and they started after the troubles in China. But we have no one in the middle. So now we must do two years' training in a single year if we are to reach the top level...
Occasionally, and with great delight, Duffy ventures out to cover a music or dance story herself. Last March she accompanied Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony on their historic tour of China. "It was fascinating to see musicians there attempt to recover after the Gang of Four's efforts to dismantle Chinese culture," she says. "Instruments are few, scores even fewer, but there is no dearth of enthusiasm. In Shanghai, we watched a rehearsal of Swan Lake in a room so cold we could see our breath. The dancers, however, took no notice of the chill. They were simply...
...values. But until the destruction came to be expected and then required, all this razing was never phony. Anyone in the audience could tell those instruments were extensions of, even surrogates for, the four blessed, blitzed maniacs in the band. That was not Pop art onstage; it was a gang...