Word: hua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect to be alive." Adept at maneuvering behind the scenes (he has twice turned down the title of Premier), Deng has done everything possible to clear the way for his protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even if the leftists could close it again, they would...
...they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant. Was it not terrible, they complained, that a young man whose training cost the state thousands of dollars should give up his future...
...dogmatism. In 1979 Deng released the country from the cultural straitjacket of the Mao era, admitting Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were publicly censuring Playwright Bai Hua, who had dared to let one of his characters ask her father, "You love your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution...
...while reading John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Age of Uncertainty" in the American books section of a library in Shanghai, China. Ching-hua Tang came across a picture of the Harvard Business School. Impressed by the beauty of the campus, Tang dreamed of one day coming to the B-School to study...
...between the two countries after a frosty intermission of nearly three years. The Soviets, who have long hoped for better links with Peking, quickly responded. At Leonid Brezhnev's funeral last November, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went out of his way to give his Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua, a cordial welcome. After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from...