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...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...
...quest may not be the stuff of headlines, but it is real enough and is beginning to shape ways of thinking among educated Chinese. American teachers of English in China report a thirst among their students for discussions of moral and philosophical topics. Christianity has made substantial inroads: in Kaifeng (pop. 600,000), the second largest city in Henan province, officials say that 10% of the population is now Christian. In 1949 it was less than...
Whirlwind Hand. When the fierce Chin Tartars ("The Golden Tribes") swept down over the Great Wall, captured the capital Kaifeng and took Sung Emperor Huitsung, along with 3,000 of his court, into captivity in Mongolia, about 6,500 paintings in the imperial collection dating back over 1,000 years were destroyed or dispersed. But the Sung Dynasty held out in the south for another 150 years-long enough to make their new capital. Hangchow, with its willows and delicately arched bridges, one of the most beautiful cities of antiquity...
...command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever is a tireless, able, dedicated, imaginative officer who is respected both...
...Reds staged anti-Pollio demonstrations, plastered Kaifeng with posters-one of them proclaimed that "Pollio is the son of a dog and a horse," which, in China, combines the insult of animal ancestry with the insult of miscegenation. Last spring, Bishop Pollio asked some Red hoodlums outside his church to take their noise elsewhere. The Reds cried that he was "interfering with the liberties of the people," and he was jailed...