Word: hued
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...could say we have wasted 20 years." Even in the relatively candid mood prevalent in Chinese ruling circles, that assessment from Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang was blunt. In an article published last month in the current-affairs magazine Outlook, Hu blamed "radical leftist nonsense" for Communism's failure to meet the economic goals set after the 1949 revolution. Specifically, he warned that China can "never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China...
Last week, in a startling admission, the Taiwan government said that members of its military intelligence organization were involved in Liu's murder. Two Nationalist gangsters who had reportedly confessed that they helped carry out the crime said that Colonel Chen Hu-men, a deputy department director in the intelligence bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, was aware of the plot. The colonel was arrested last week, while other Nationalist officials under suspicion were being questioned...
...crackdown that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must be free" and pledged that writers would never again become victims of political persecution. According to the People's Daily, some of the delegates wept openly with...
China's future leaders are now emerging. At a party meeting in late December, Deng lavishly praised several younger members, including Hu Qili, who is in charge of the Secretariat's day-to-day operations and who, at 56, is considered a rising star. Deng also announced a party delegate conference for next September to elect as many as 50 new members to the 346-seat Central Committee. The anticipated housecleaning is intended to make room for younger, more open-minded and better-educated officials who are likely to promote rather than resist reform. Efforts are also under...
...original remark was attributed to a recent address by Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, an impulsive speaker who has required public correction before, and reflects the thinking of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. The remark was misinterpreted abroad as a major ideological shift, evidently persuading Chinese reformers to qualify Hu's words for fear of inciting a back lash among party conservatives. "Such a fuss is the last thing we wanted," said a Chinese intellectual. "We need a quiet revolution...