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Pinyin is a somewhat less cumbersome method of rendering Chinese words in alphabetic form than the traditional Wade-Giles system, which employs apostrophes and hyphens. Examples: Hua Guofeng instead of Hua Kuofeng; Deng Xiaoping instead of Teng Hsiao-p'ing. Initially, TIME plans to use the Pinyin spellings with the conventional Wade-Giles rendering in parentheses. There will be exceptions. Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong in Pinyin) and other familiar figures of history will not appear in their Pinyin form. Nor will such widely used place names as Peking (Beijing in Pinyin), Canton (Guangzhou), Tibet (Xizang) or Hong Kong...
...there was something faintly incongruous about Chinese Chairman Hua Kuofeng's state visit to the imperial court of Iran last week, neither the guest nor his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, seemed to notice it. Hua did ask, in advance, that he be driven into town from the airport in an automobile instead of the horse-drawn golden carriage in which the Shah normally transports his most honored guests. But otherwise the visit passed uneventfully, with talks about cultural exchanges and expanded trade. Though the subject was not announced, the two leaders undoubtedly discussed something else that concerns them...
Thus for the moment, Hua Kuofeng, the firm but moderate Premier, seems in charge. He stood first in the lineup of leaders at Mao's mourning. He has also impressed foreign observers with his cool, adept handling of both the recent earthquakes and the obsequies for Mao. But will he consolidate his power, as Leonid Brezhnev did in the Soviet Union after the ouster of Khrushchev? Or will he, like Georgi Malenkov after the death of Stalin, eventually be relegated to obscurity? Many observers believe that he might endure, given the apparent strength of the moderates in China today...
...press and its sources were sort of taken aback when their speculation fell through and Hua Kuofeng, instead of Teng, took Chou's place. The mark on Teng's political record limits the amount of influence he can really hold. In his book, Prisoner of Mao, Jean Pasqualini recounts a conversation with the chief warden of a Chinese prison for "reform through labor" (Lao Gai) that might have some bearing on the way things have turned out for Teng Hsiao-ping. Many former inmates of this labor camp for ideological reform continued to hold jobs there, away from their families...
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