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...northern China, where he joined the Communist Party. Hua went to Hunan prov ince as a minor party official about the time the Communists came to power in 1949. In the early 1950s, after gaining a reputation as an expert in agriculture, he was made party secretary in Mao's home county of Hsiang-t'an. Hua achieved brief nationwide notice by writing an article for Study magazine, the party's theoretical journal, on the changing class structure in that region. By 1958 he had become vice governor of populous (50 million) Hunan province. He emerged unscathed...
...achieve true national prominence until 1971-the year in which Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao. Hua reportedly led a purge of pro-Lin Piao elements in Hunan. Possibly as a reward for his services to the Chairman, he was called to Peking to run the secretariat of the State Council, handling, in particular, China's agricultural affairs. In 1973 he was elevated to the 22-member Politburo; early last year he became one of the country's twelve Vice Premiers and head of the Ministry of Public Security, China's extensive but little-known...
...Chou's reputation. Says Merle Goldman, professor of Chinese history at Boston University: "There is an underlying feeling in China that the values represented by Cultural Revolution-type policies are resented by the population." Last week's violence showed that many ordinary Chinese are irritated by Mao's radical style, particularly the perpetual, bullying disruptions in daily life caused by the Chairman's periodic ideological campaigns...
Sinologists agree on the obvious: the real test for China will not come until after the disappearance of the major symbol of authority, Chairman Mao. The Great Helmsman's death, especially in the absence of a figure like Chou Enlai, who was supremely skilled in the art of political balance and compromise, could easily remove the constraints that now keep the factions under control. Indeed, some analysts believe last week's violence would not have happened had Chou still been alive. That view may exaggerate the late Premier's indispensable skills. But there is no doubt that...
...PIAO. Like Liu Shao-ch'i, he was officially designated Mao's heir apparent, but these days, Lin Piao shares with Liu the distinction of being the chief villain of practically every poster campaign in China. Born in 1907 in Hupei province, Lin Piao spent virtually his entire career in the Red Army after he helped to form it in 1927, and he succeeded P'eng as Defense Minister in 1959. He was the chief proponent of Mao's "cult of personality" during the Cultural Revolution, as editor of the "Little Red Book" of selected quotations...