Word: hua
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Much has been made of the differences between Mao and Deng. Mao was massive; Deng is diminutive. Mao was an ideologue; Deng is a pragmatist. But they have had one shared frustration: arranging an orderly succession. First Liu Shaoqi and then Lin Biao disappointed Mao; Hua Guofeng, his last designated successor, held power after the Chairman's death, from 1976 to 1978. In 1980 Deng put his approved team in place -- Hu Yaobang as party General Secretary and Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Seven years later, Hu was forced from power as a deviationist. Now Deng is purging Zhao and other...
Guangdong, burdened with fewer state-run plants than other regions to begin with, has proved especially congenial to the entrepreneurial spirit. In Beijiao, about 15 miles south of Guangzhou, Ou Jiangquan, 49, general manager of the Yu Hua Industrial Co., has seen his firm expand from a bottle-cap producer to a manufacturer of electric fans and microwave ovens for export. "It's not easy for state-run enterprises to compete against us," says Ou. "They have to carry out reforms, or they will have...
...highest levels, Deng has tried to ensure that his reforms will outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists...
Tucked away behind Elsie's is Ching Hua Garden (24 Holyoke St.). This place looks like a real dive but has good food, good service and good prices. And they take credit cards. There's also Young and Yee (27 Church St.), but this place has never been especially popular among undergraduates...
...Chen-hua, Dean...