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...vice commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, helped direct the fight against U.S.-led coalition forces during the Korean War; in Beijing. Promoted to general for his role in aiding North Korea, Hong was purged in 1959 for his ties to opponents of Chairman Mao Zedong. Rehabilitated in the 1970s, he was pushed out again in 1989 for reportedly opposing the use of force during the bloody Tiananmen crackdown. Numbers 1,348 days Length of U.S. involvement in World War II, a milestone the U.S. involvement in Iraq passed on Nov. 26 406,000 Number of U.S. soldiers...
...Warhol and Willem de Kooning. And at a Christie's auction last week in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong and Yan Lei set record prices, while Zhang Xiaogang's A Big Family Series No. 16 went for $1.36 million, surpassing its highest estimate. The Warhol Mao, of course, dwarfed all those sales, going for $17.4 million, suggesting that there's plenty of life in Western art yet. (And that Mao is one popular...
...followed in the '80s was another casualty of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Many artists left the country. Now back, they're thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong, the Red Guards and other icons of the recent past are central to the works that have brought many of them fame...
...impulse in China was rare or even illegal. Ending a marriage in China has long been considered shameful, and for years the ruling communist cadres forbade almost all couples to divorce, viewing it as a symptom of capitalism's fickleness. (The injunction evidently didn't apply to Chairman Mao Zedong, who married three times and had dozens of dalliances.) In 1980 only about 3,000 couples divorced in Shanghai, China's largest city. But as economic reforms have loosened the party's grip on people's lives and ushered in Western attitudes, divorce rates have soared, particularly in urban areas...
...DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant, outspoken former First Lady of China who was jailed during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. After a falling-out with Mao Zedong, Wang's husband, President Liu Shaoqi, was labeled the country's "No. 1 Capitalist Roader," while the sophisticated, well-educated Wang was accused of being an American spy by the jealous Jiang Qing, Mao's wife. Publicly humiliated by the Red Guards and imprisoned in 1967, Wang was freed in 1979 to find herself a widow-Liu had died in prison 10 years earlier. Rehabilitated in 1980, she remained a faithful Party member...