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...conversation with TIME [WORLD, Nov. 4], Deng Xiaoping speaks of the mistakes made by China's leaders during the past 30 years. He is referring to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both campaigns were initiated to rekindle enthusiasm for Communist ideology. Both episodes turned into disasters. Now China's leaders have seen the light. In its pure form Communism cannot exist; it must adopt some capitalist traits. Otherwise, the "polarization between rich and poor" that Deng speaks of will occur in a drastic way. As China's leader says, "You should give them [the peasants] the power...
Deng also supported Mao's Great Leap Forward in 1958, which called for enforced nationwide collectivism on the farms and a buildup of steel production in backyard furnaces. The campaign proved disastrous, producing a series of prolonged famines that starved some 27 million people during the years 1958 to 1962. By 1961 Deng and President Liu Shaoqi had realized the enormity of the miscalculation and set about correcting it. At a tense party plenum that Mao did not attend (so that Liu, Deng and others could gainleader ship experience prior to the Chairman's death), they announced measures reinstating private...
...what's going on. "It doesn't matter who you know here," says Li, a high school graduate from a peasant family in rural China. "All that matters is your work." In a country of 1.3 billion people, the Wal-Mart way may not yet amount to a great leap forward. But it is progress...
...China relations took a great leap forward in 1971, as PING-PONG DIPLOMACY helped bridge the gap between the two nations...
Laine extended his Harvard career by earning a berth to the NCAAs with his winning leap...