Word: hupei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles south of Peking. Indeed, travelers returning from the Paoting area reported that armed rebels supporting Chiang Ch'ing's leftists had raped women, robbed banks, raided ammunition dumps, blown up factories, hijacked military vehicles and disrupted rail traffic. According to other reports, disturbances have also occurred in Hupei, Honan and Shansi provinces as well as in Fukien, where 12,000 troops had to be sent to quell followers of the Gang of Four, who were "disturbing the army" and "sabotaging the party's unified leadership." Radio broadcasts have also reported that "criminal gangs are threatening public order" in Chekiang...
...than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing the protracted unrest in Hupei and Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said to have dispatched agitators to the industrial center of Wuhan in Hupei province for the purpose of forming a Chiang Ch'ing power clique. According to one broadcast, the conspirators spoke to each other only in Spanish in order...
...PIAO. Like Liu Shao-ch'i, he was officially designated Mao's heir apparent, but these days, Lin Piao shares with Liu the distinction of being the chief villain of practically every poster campaign in China. Born in 1907 in Hupei province, Lin Piao spent virtually his entire career in the Red Army after he helped to form it in 1927, and he succeeded P'eng as Defense Minister in 1959. He was the chief proponent of Mao's "cult of personality" during the Cultural Revolution, as editor of the "Little Red Book" of selected quotations...
...photographs." Peking is also carrying its stress on variety into the arts on the principle of Mao Tse-tung's famous maxim: "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." Wuhan radio announced that 100 "experimental works of creative art" were performed at the Hupei Arts Festival last month, including Peking opera, Han opera, Chu opera, ballet, theatrical plays and mountain songs...
...army chief, Huang has become an obvious rival to Chou Enlai, whose own power has declined along with that of the party and the civilian government. Personally, the two men could hardly be more dissimilar. Chou is urbane and sophisticated. Huang, born to a farm family in central Hupei province, seems to glory in a sort of peasant earthiness, much as Mao does. He likes to brag about his lack of book learning. "Even if you turn me inside out, you won't be able to find a drop of ink," he says. Huang normally smothers his meals...