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...comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef and now adviser to Shanghai's Jinjiang Hotel. "Our cooking began to decline in the '50s, and we won't even talk about the '60s and '70s, when our most talented chefs left the country," he added. "We have to teach young cooks how traditional Chinese...
...determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic freedoms...
...construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected / to the 157-member presidium that heads the People's Congress. Seated directly behind Zhao, Hu clutched a red pencil during the attack, underlining the prepared text of the Premier's speech and keeping his eyes riveted to the copy...
...would be hard to conceive of Deng being toppled," says Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the - University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies. Experts also agree that while the pace of Deng's reforms may be slowed, they will not be rolled back. The fall of the reform-minded Hu Yaobang, however, muddies the outlook. His ouster could turn what had shaped up as a smooth transition of leadership into a bitter brawl for succession once Deng leaves power...
...China's leaders will come this fall, when the 13th Communist Party Congress is to meet in Peking. The current political stalemate is likely to continue until that gathering, when top party and government posts will be filled. Among the appointments will be that of a permanent successor to Hu as party General Secretary, a job Premier Zhao now holds on an acting basis...