Word: mao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their part, political leaders have courted poets, supported poets, quoted poets. Some have even been poets. Henry VIII, who liked to write verse when he wasn't making life brutish or short for his wives. Chairman Mao, who, when visited by the muse, commanded the largest audience for poetry in history. Poet Leopold Senghor, former President of Senegal. Poet Jose Sarney, current President of Brazil. If political leaders happen not to be poets, they can always seek one's company, so that he may write them into immortality or simply decorate a hard, unlyrical business. John Kennedy had genuine affection...
...crowd of 433 heard three participants in a panel discussion called "China: On the Road to Capitalism?" address the changes in China's economy since the death of its long-time leader Mao Zedong...
...China is now correcting Mao's mistakes," said Li Miao, a former administrator of China's Ministry of Finance. But while Mao's successors have disbanded communes and encouraged private enterprise, Miao said, the Chinese are not abandoning socialism...
...China, was fostering the development of a potential enemy. Aikman acknowledged that the United States may in fact be helping to sustain a government operating under an ideology the American government opposes, but said that "it is in our best interests that we encourage reforms against the leftism that Mao advocated...
...leader, Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others will fall into place...