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...Yueyuan Factory No. 3 in Dongguan, in the Guangdong province of China, Zhang Jinming, 21, who comes from the poor inland province of Jiangxi, runs a stamping machine. "I work here because I have to earn a living, but it's boring work. When I have money, I'll go back," he says. [TIME used its own interpreters.] The average monthly wage is 600 renminbi, or $73. The company provides meals and living quarters in spartan although adequate dorm rooms that sleep 12 and offer individual storage closets and ceiling fans for the summer. In Vietnam, by comparison, the minimum...
...with the Moscow-influenced "internationalists" at Communist Party headquarters in Shanghai, Deng, who had become exasperated with Soviet-style conventional warfare, was convinced that Mao's tactics were right. From 1931 to 1935, as the two worked to establish a Red Army base in the south-central province of Jiangxi, a mutual affection ripened that was almost brotherly. When Mao was denounced and demoted by pro-Russian elements of the party as an "escapist" for advocating a hit-and-run campaign of attrition, Deng was ousted along with...
Their fortunes changed after October 1934. Harassed by superior Nationalist forces, the Red Army of Jiangxi joined the arduous Long March, threading in roundabout ways through the hinterland until it straggled to the caves of Yan'an in northwestern Shaanxi province a year and 7,500 miles later. The retreat cost the lives of more than 90,000 troops, but sheer survival, along with the self-sacrifice the soldiers displayed toward civilians en route, made heroes of the communists. Mao's guerrilla strategy had by then made him the movement's unchallenged leader...
...people" but defined the opposition of his old comrade as an antagonism that emerged "from among the ranks of the people." Deng and his wife were allowed to live under house arrest in Beijing for two years before being sent south, back to the old revolutionary base of Jiangxi. They were assigned quarters in the commandant's house at a deserted infantry school and required to work mornings at the tractor factory. Their greatest sorrows at this time were the death of Deng's younger brother, driven to suicide by Red Guards, and the crippling of their son Deng Pufang...
...Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies, he was exiled to Jiangxi province in the southeast. There he lived under constant guard with his wife and stepmother in a five-room house on the grounds of an abandoned infantry academy. Deng got a job fitting parts together at a nearby tractor factory. In his spare time he tended his vegetable garden, raised chickens...