Word: mao
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...After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao as chairman of China's Communist Party. Though Hua's tenure at the head of the party was short-lived--he was all but powerless by 1978 and was formally replaced by the more radical Deng Xiaoping in 1981--it was his administration that brought an end to the violence of China's decade-long Cultural Revolution by arresting the extreme leftist Gang of Four, including Mao's widow...
...China's women have the legacy of Karl Marx to thank for their remarkable performance. Chairman Mao liked to say that "women hold up half the sky," and when the country began its state-sponsored project in the 1990s to cultivate gold-medal athletes, women were given more than equal treatment. In fact, China's Sports Ministry strategically focused on developing women's sports because they tend to be underfunded in most other countries. The People's Republic pours millions of dollars into developing everything from female marksmen to women wrestlers. "Chinese girls are willing to work harder...
...first time, in 1994. Then the art scene was still underground, and most artists were poor, often living in squalid conditions. Meeting with foreign reporters could be a problem, I was told, because the authorities had just come down particularly hard on artists, who were still (as if Mao Zedong had yet been alive) seen as a source of "spiritual pollution." Many artists weren't even in Beijing, having fled the city after the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations...
...Mao Ce has never been employed. A high-school dropout, he has almost no chance of landing a good job in the education-obsessed marketplace of modern China. His parents divorced when he was a child, so he lives with his father and grandfather in a sixth floor walk-up in a crumbling, Soviet-style apartment block near the center of this ancient metropolis. Mao's father owns the apartment, a sign of his moderate success in international trade. But as solid as his living situation is, Mao Ce, and others like him, can feel left behind in today...
...Mao Ce and his friends, along with many of the other young people of Changsha, remain in a state of postponed adulthood. Unemployed and disaffected, they have embraced a kind of blissful ambivalence towards life as they float between parties, drugs, and a sexual freedom unknown to their elders. Some run small businesses - DIY music venues, tattoo parlors, head shops. Mao Ce himself occasionally gigs as a DJ, but in a city as localized and provincial as Changsha, he has few prospects for making a career of it. "I have no wishes or dreams", he says. "When I was young...