Word: mao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime ambition of the new leaders is simple: stability. They are not alone in that desire. However cynical the Chinese people have become about Marxism, they, like the leadership, profoundly fear disorder. The terrible decades under Mao taught the entire nation the very real dangers of anarchy, and while the Chinese now want to concentrate on private concerns, they want to do so amid political stability and public order. That allows the regime to maintain a degree of authoritarianism quite abhorrent to Westerners. Jiang and his cohort can probably maintain Deng's dual system of economic progress and political rigidity...
Deng, who came to power in China in 1978, died Wednesday night in Beijing at the age of 92. He was one of the founding revolutionaries of Communist China, and was one of the last leaders to have participated in Mao Zedong's formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 (see story, page...
BEIJING: In perhaps the greatest tribute to Deng Xiaoping's campaign to rid his country of the personality cult that had done so much damage under Mao, China is taking his death in stride. Markets in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan were up on the first day after Deng's death as investors continued to pursue Deng's famous exhortation, "To get rich is glorious." Nowhere was the contrast to the past more evident than in Tiananmen square. It was here in April of 1976 where tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief...
...very religious," said Benjamin J. Mao '99, "so I wanted to get exposure to the Bible...
...Unfortunately, Mao's legacy and Mickey Mouse's legacy are colliding here...