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...world's most populous nation. Six years after Deng Xiaoping, in an attempt to shape China into a powerful, modern nation, introduced some of the most daring and far-reaching reforms ever attempted in a Communist country, the winds of change are blowing as strongly as ever. Like Mao Tse-tung before him, Deng, now 80, is trying to imprint his notion of what China should be upon the country before he dies. However, unlike Mao, an eternal revolutionary, Deng is a shrewd pragmatist whose economic reforms have proved popular, at least so far, among a people eager for Western...
Hsiao adds that at the time he had confidence that these "conditions were only temporary, if only because they were so out of reason, so out of norm." Now, it is very clear that the Cultural Revolution was a great disaster for China, he says. Although Mao's early actions greatly helped China, "from 1957-76 he was not so good, he make some big mistakes...
...leading unit, a 153-man, three-service honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
Charlotte Ann Mao Currier...
Charlotte Ann Mao Currier...