Word: jingzhi
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...Faso to Beijing has fueled new rumors that the 85-year-old Chinese leader is seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference of hard-liners who attempted to thwart...
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