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...Harvard China experts met in a packed Kirkland House junior common room to discuss the effects of the changes in the Chinese leadership since Mao Tsetung's death last month...
...Since Mao's death, Hua has assumed leadership of the Communist Party, and many believe has presided over the purge of the "gang of four," leaders of the radical faction that is opposed to Hua and his moderate supporters...
...cited what he called a grass roots belief that Chiang Ching, Mao's widow and a leader of the radicals, had entered politics only through her marriage to Mao and not because of her own merit...
...added that no one could be as secure as Mao, who was revered as the maker of the Chinese revolution, and thus could not be replaced as a popular figure...
...charisma that the Chinese have long associated with their party Chairman. And though he seems to have the support of other key elements, especially the army and the party bureaucracy, he may not have a strong enough power base to survive a major challenge to his leadership. Thus Mao, just before he died, may have told Hua, "If you become Chairman, I can die peacefully," but whether or not the Chinese millions will live peacefully remains to be seen...