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Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles. No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast...
Deng began his effort by abandoning the personality cult and dictatorial system fostered by Mao. In 1980 he replaced the autocratic position of party chairman with an eleven-man secretariat. In an even bolder move, he gave the spotlight position of General Secretary not to himself but to Hu Yaobang, 70, a former chief of the Communist Youth League and his occasional bridge partner. Since then, Deng has chosen to operate largely behind the scenes, stressing that the reform program is not his work but that of the party. He has thus allowed his two deputies, General Secretary...
...highest levels, Deng has tried to ensure that his reforms will outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists...
...burst of xenophobia, called for the ouster of all foreigners and fought a yearlong war with Western colonial troops dispatched to put down the uprising. Six decades later, following the collapse of a close association with the Soviet Union in ideological wrangling about the true path to Communism, Mao triggered the Cultural Revolution to turn China in on itself once again. "The one constant in China in this century has been change," says Father Laszlo Ladany, a Hong Kong-based analyst of Chinese affairs. "Change is the only certain thing...
...them tackle the mainland market head on. "We should open an office in Hong Kong to find out what the (Chinese) need," says a Taipei businessman. But Chiang remains unimpressed with mainland economic reforms. "They are Communists, and that will never change," he says. "They used to wear Mao suits without a tie, and now they wear Western suits with a tie. And you Westerners call that a change...