Word: kuo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, at 63, Chiang Ch'ing is no longer a revolutionary heroine; she is constantly attacked as a counterrevolutionary villain. The abrupt transformation came about last October when she was arrested in Peking by the new government of Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. She stands charged with being one of the "Gang of Four," a coterie of top officials whose alleged goal was to seize supreme power for themselves. Together they supposedly forged the deathbed instructions of Mao, incited violence and sabotage throughout the country, and mounted campaigns of slander against anyone who opposed them. Chiang...
...plunge China into near-total chaos for the sake of ideological purity. Thus it is almost certain that the purge of Chiang Ch'ing was indirectly a slap at her husband as well. Accompanied as it was by the triumph of the pragmatists under new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, Chiang Ch'ing's fall represents the beginnings of a kind of de-Maoification in China, in fact if not in name...
...from being over, the struggle to succeed Mao Tse-tung may have just begun. Most China watchers thought the battle for power had been settled-at least temporarily-when Hua Kuo-feng was named Party Chairman and then moved decisively to purge Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her radical "Gang of Four." But widespread protests against the radicals' purge have persisted in China (TIME, Jan. 10). Then came another mysterious shock. At ceremonies in Peking's T'ien An Men Square marking the first anniversary of the death of Premier Chou Enlai, there...
...Great disorder across the land leads to great order." So declared China's new Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng, in a major policy speech published in Peking last week. The optimistic aphorism had been a favorite of Mao Tse-tung's, but it would be up to Mao's hard-pressed successor to make it come true. As Hua delivered his address in the Great Hall of the People before 8,000 delegates attending an agricultural conference in the Chinese capital, reports were already filtering out of China suggesting the existence of considerable disorder in the shape of strikes, sabotage...
...Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with past principles; with you in charge I am at ease." Days after Mao's death the gang altered the final instructions to read, "Act according to the principles laid down." The forged quote was published in several of China...