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Outmaneuvered by his hard-line rivals, Zhao was stripped of power and placed under house arrest. The daring innovator who had introduced capitalist policies to post-Mao Zedong China spent his last 16 years virtually imprisoned, rarely allowed to venture away from his home on a quiet alley in Beijing. As his hair turned white, Zhao passed many lonely hours driving golf balls into a net in his courtyard...
...final say about what really happened and what might have been. It's a fitting final act for a man who made enormous contributions to today's China. Although Deng generally gets credit for modernizing China's economy, it was Zhao who brought about the innovations - from breaking up Mao's collective farms to creating freewheeling special economic zones along the coast - that jolted China's economy from its slumber. And it was Zhao who had to continually outflank powerful rivals who didn't want to see the system change...
...aftermath of the Cultural Revolution—a period of mass cultural, political, and economic upheaval initiated by Mao Zedong—Chinese filmmakers sought to return to the perceived origins of their culture as a way of accounting for China’s contemporary problems. “They were asking, ‘Is anything wrong with the makeup of our culture that has led us to where we are now?’” Wang says. “[Filmmakers] had a lot of interest in going to frontier areas to observe the ethnic minorities?...
...book, Hu Yaobang and Chinese Political Reform: the Recollections of 12 Old Communist Members, pulls together 12 essays written by some of the most prominent names in today's Chinese political arena. Contributors include Li Rui, who once served as Mao Zedong's secretary, and Hu Jiwei, the former editor of the People's Daily, China's primary state-run newspaper. The writers, introduced in the forward as Hu's old comrades and subordinates, not only reflect on the former leader's efforts in pursuing greater political openness and a more practical policy toward Tibet, they aim to turn...
...country that is still struggling with Mao Zedong's legacy - where the official line quantitatively insists that Mao was 70% right and only 30% wrong - Hu Jiwei's views on Deng will no doubt be a hard one to accept. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based writer who was imprisoned by Chinese authorities for almost three years for espionage, put this in rather blunt terms at the book event. "[China does] not dare to face its history," he says...