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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born to a peasant family in south-central China, Hu joined the Communist Youth League (C.Y.L.) at the age of 14, and was admitted into the Communist Party in 1933. He first attracted Mao's attention during the legendary 1934 Long March in the civil war against the Chinese Nationalists, when the Communists retreated 6,000 miles through eleven provinces before reaching Yanan in Shaanxi province. Though Hu never finished primary school and had to teach himself how to read, Mao assigned him to increasingly important jobs in the C.Y.L. in the 1930s. In 1941 Hu met Deng while...
When Mao launched his devastating Cultural Revolution in 1966, Hu was one of its first victims. With Deng, he was branded a "capitalist reader." Both men were stripped of power for nearly a decade. Hu was sent to a re-education camp, where he was obliged not only to tend cattle but to eat and sleep with the sheep and horses...
When Deng emerged from exile in 1975, he got Hu out of the stables. But after Hu prepared a report charging that the government was misusing China's leading scientists as field workers, he was again purged. His report was damned as "a big poisonous weed...
Following Mao's death in 1976, Hu once again was brought back to power by Deng. Since 1980, he has managed the party's everyday affairs as Secretary-General of the Central Committee. Lately, the press of work has reportedly forced Hu and Deng to give up playing bridge, their favorite game...
Little is known about Hu's family, even in China. He is believed to be married and to have three grownup children, all of whom are said to live the same kind of spartan life that he has led for years. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Peking and Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong