Word: kaifeng
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Center of the World Baghdad: Bazaar of world trade; seat of the most prestigious caliphate. Rivals: Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire; Kaifeng in Song dynasty China...
...August 1967, with China in tumult, he and Liu were put on public trial. Liu's leg was broken in the spectacle, and he later died of pneumonia in a makeshift prison in the city of Kaifeng. At the trial Red Guards decried Deng as a "capitalist roader," a "fascist" and a "traitor" and shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil!" Confronted by such rantings for hours on end, Deng simply removed his hearing aid. What saved him from Liu's fate, evidently, was a simple thing as well. While Mao had always despised the patrician...