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When he succeeded Mao Tse-tung as Party Chairman in 1976, after all, he was a mere Minister of Public Security...
...mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality." As every Chinese knows, just such a cult swirled around only Hua for several months in 1976 and 1977 when his pictures were displayed side by side with Mao everywhere...
...pragmatic government leaders. In Deng's controlled press, articles indirectly accused Hua of blocking the dismissal of venal provincial officials, opposing economic reforms and acting like an old-style palace eunuch who rose to power by toadying to the Emperor-in this case, Hua's onetime patron Mao...
...hate that infects other "counterrevolutionaries" who survived the Cultural Revolution. "I was not the only on who suffered," he explains. "There were thousands--tens of thousands--and you really can't pin down who was responsible." He does not blame the Guards, confused children under the spell of Mao, for what they did. "If one doesn't have a choice, you can't make any moral judgment whether he is right or wrong," Zhao argues. "I never doubted that things would change," he says, "because it was so ridiculous, so silly, so unreasonable..." His words reflect what one friend calls...
...trial is also part of a reevaluation of Mao, Zhao explains, with a frankness that several Harvard Sinologists say is unusual for a Chinese today. "It's really cutting [Mao] down to size." Zhao believes. "He was deified. In his late years, when there was obvious senility, he made mistakes...