Word: hsiao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumored successor in the Chiang family, Second Son Chiang Hsiao-wu, $ 40, a broadcasting executive, has suffered from being linked in the press, perhaps unfairly, with the Henry Liu affair. Besides, many in Taiwan are uncomfortable with the idea of a Chiang dynasty. For the moment, having survived the worst scandals in the KMT's 39-year rule of Taiwan, people are mostly hoping that the current Chiang remains in good health...
...Hsiao adds that at the time he had confidence that these "conditions were only temporary, if only because they were so out of reason, so out of norm." Now, it is very clear that the Cultural Revolution was a great disaster for China, he says. Although Mao's early actions greatly helped China, "from 1957-76 he was not so good, he make some big mistakes...
Yang was unable to do manual work because of poor health, so she remained in Shanghai and was "borrowed by the Chinese translation publishing house." In 1973, Ching-Chang Hsiao returned from the countryside and was borrowed by the People's Publishing House as a specialist in Chinese classical language and literature...
After the fall of the Gang of Four both Hsiao and Yang were despatched back to their former newspaper jobs--Yang writes special assignments, interviewing prominent people, and Hsiao travels throughout China as a special correspondent...
...Hsiao, 58, the eldest of the Nieman fellows this year, says that he was continually asked in China "why do you want to go abroad, you're so old?" He laughs and says, "I think knowledge is boundless...I always look forward and have no regrets about the past." Just as history has bright and dark periods, his personal experiences are good and bad, he says, "but we always believe in our future...