Word: hued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late last year, when Deng himself moved toward acknowledging the criticism, the reform campaign began to run out of steam. He accepted the ouster of his protege, Hu Yaobang, from the important post of party General Secretary and slowed down measures to expand China's fledgling market economy. Debate on political reform, especially sensitive after the demonstrations, was shelved. With Deng apparently on their side, the conservatives pressed ahead with their campaign against capitalist thinking and Western influence...
...that believe that suppression of speech is justified, and indeed dictated by the common good, and the need for national security. Such nations ban authors, and regulate what the press can and cannot say. They can even justify violence, and murders in the name of the "community good." Arthur Hu...
...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...
...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...