Word: liu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, the official Xinhua news agency reported that Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, admitted in court that she led a group in preparing false evidence against then Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and ordered the arrest of his wife on charges she was an American...
...defendants of a host of heinous crimes that took place during the Cultural Revolution. The charges specify that 727,420 Chinese were "persecuted" during that period, and that 34,274 died, though the often vague indictment did not specify exactly how. Among the chief victims: onetime Chief of State Liu Shaoqi, whose widow Wang Guangmei, herself imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, attended the trial as an observer...
Returning from last year's team are co-captains Trumbull, a senior, junior Tom Hanlihan, as well as veterans Rick Rohan and Andy Liu, and last year's freshman sensation Brad Martin...
...attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose a bold, abstract pattern on a powerfully articulated form. From the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of the 2nd century Han prince Liu Sheng, comes the figure of a kneeling girl. The lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through the girl's sleeve and on into the hollow body, so no soot would dirty the room...
There was a neat, and perhaps inevitable, symmetry to the party decisions. Although hardly a liberal, Liu was a pragmatic bureaucrat who, unlike Mao, was willing to sacrifice ideological purity for the sake of economic development. Liu's posthumous rehabilitation thus completed the return to power of bureaucrats like Deng who were purged by Mao. At the same time, the removal of Deng's four chief enemies in the Politburo presumably gives him more freedom to install a new leadership team that will carry out his policies, now as well as after his death...