Word: mao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examples of how dramatically China has changed since a U.S. President last came to visit. The China that Ronald Reagan will see bears little resemblance to the drab and sullen nation glimpsed by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Gerald Ford three years later. The giant billboards that once displayed Mao's quotations now bear gaudy advertisements for cameras, calculators and computers. The farming communes of the countryside, that ubiquitous trademark of the Maoist republic, have in effect been dismantled. Like the imposing façade of the main gate to Peking's Forbidden City, which is shrouded by scaffolding, all China...
Meanwhile, Deng has forced China out of the ethnocentricity developed over two millenniums of imperial supremacy and resuscitated by the almost religious xenophobia of Mao, while urging it to look outward for its economic models. "The Chinese have rediscovered that they are the center of the world," observes a Western diplomat in Peking. "They have put themselves in the position of being courted by everyone...
...Nakasone, "In another five years, I don't expect to be alive." Adept at maneuvering behind the scenes (he has twice turned down the title of Premier), Deng has done everything possible to clear the way for his protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even...
...dawn of the Cultural Revolution, Mao wrote to his wife that after his death the rightists would seize power. But, he went on to assure her, leftists would soon take it back again. Deng and China have helped the first part of the prophecy to come true. For all their achievements, though, they know that the second part is by no means impossible...
...eight years since the death of Mao, Deng has installed the revolutionary notion that people produce more if offered incentives. Without upheaval or fanfare, without blatant feuds at the top or bloody purges at the grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise...