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...ouster was a stunning victory for Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 74, who has emerged as China's major policymaker since his return to power last year. Bitter over the obloquy and humiliation heaped upon him during the Cultural Revolution, Teng has been purging the party ranks of officials who rose to prominence in those turbulent times. Chief among his targets have been those, like Wu, who attacked Teng personally, even forcing him to parade through the streets of Peking wearing a dunce...
...Wusih, a customer reasonably well versed in Chinese asks a salesgirl the exact meaning of the calligraphy on a 200-year-old wall scroll. Her hesitant reply: "Aim high to build our country," which is purest Mao. The scroll actually reproduces a philosophical poem by the Ch'ing dynasty's Tsu Shao-tseng...
Four of the five Ts'ao family members are factory employees. Ts'ao Hung-ch'i and his wife Ch'en Su-ch'ing, both 42, and their oldest daughter, Ts'ao Su-wing, 24, work in Kweilin's Measuring Equipment Factory (micrometers, T squares, etc.). A younger daughter works at another plant, and their son is in school. As a factory worker's son, the boy has a good chance of being accepted at a university - if he can pass his exams and shows a "good attitude...
...village, the Ch'ens own their own house, a fairly new whitewashed brick building in a row of ten attached tile-roofed dwellings on a narrow lane. Their home, which they share with three daughters, 11, 9 and 4, consists of a small entry hall, large liv ing room and sizable bedroom, small kitchen and back court with privy; they bathe in a communal facility. The tile-floored, high-ceilinged rooms are hot in summer, but they have an electric fan. Among other coveted "things that go round," as the rural Chi nese put it, they have an electric...
...scrutiny fruitful, but Huppert has the knack of suggesting endlessly watchable depths. The film ends (after Violette has been sentenced to be guillotined, then reprieved and sentenced to twelve years in prison) as did The Lacemaker, the first movie in which she starred: with camera and character star ing at each other gravely and impassively, until the screen goes dark...