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...deeper question is whether Deng can bring himself, and lower officials, to free the market enough for it to work properly. Werner Gerich, 66, a West German manager who was hired to run a state-owned diesel-engine plant in Wuhan, found his factory, like many others in China, heavily overstaffed. "If I fired 700 people [out of a total of 2,140], we could make the same number of engines with better quality because we would have money," he says. But he quit in despair because party officials would not let him make that and other changes he considered...
When Deng and 88 other Chinese arrived in Marseilles in late 1920, they found jobs scarce and funds even scarcer. Nor was there any opportunity for formal schooling. Deng worked for a time at a Renault factory and at a rubber-footware plant in Montargis, south of Paris. Though he wore Western-style clothes and acquired a lifelong fondness for croissants and bridge, he associated almost exclusively with other Chinese, among them Chou...
...worked as an industrial designer in the Hunan city of Changsha. Unhappy with their prospects, they began taking seriously stories about Shenzhen, about the wealth of jobs, high salaries and ample living quarters. Wu traveled 450 miles by train to Shenzhen and quickly found a job in an electronics plant. His wife, fluent in English, was hired by the same company as an interpreter. This summer the pair moved to Shenzhen and a life of few regrets. "Prices are a bit higher, but so are our salaries," Chen Li says. "We have a comfortable flat and enjoy our jobs...
...Weiming, 36, followed a zigzag route to his job as senior deputy director of Shanghai's propaganda bureau. A wiry and energetic man, Pan tilled rice and ran a small pesticide plant in the Jinggang mountains of central China during the Cultural Revolution. At 28 he enrolled in Peking University, where he studied Chinese literature and was elected chairman of the student union. Returning to Shanghai after finishing school, Pan joined the city's propaganda department and rose quickly. "Living with peasants for eight years," he reflects, "I saw how poor and backward our country was. The poverty shook...
...Wang, he has developed doubts about the practicality of his instruction. Says Ma: "The methods are not very useful because they do not tell you how to manage when the power remains above you. Also, they do not tell you how to deal with the party secretary in the plant, since he still keeps much authority...