Word: qing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which America recognized that Taiwan was part of China, but insisted on a "peaceful" solution. Qiao Guanhua had gone on with Mao to the end; he was released from house arrest by the new regime only last year; his wife, suspect because she had been close to Jiang Qing, had been under house arrest with...
...Qing, Mao's wife, the next morning. The Chairman had slept badly, she scolded. He had finally decided to sleep on the hard floor where he was more comfortable. After that, Mao always slept on boards as peasants do, even in the old imperial grounds of Peking where emperors once slept...
...Zhongyang was all there on the Hill that first night: Mao himself; his wife Jiang Qing; Chou Enlai; Chu Teh; Peng Dehuai; Liu Shaoqi; the band of comrades who had shaken not only China but the world, comrades whose devotion to one another gave victory to their revolution. After which they murdered one another, tortured one another, tried to assassinate one another, imprisoned and humiliated one another...
...Jiang Qing, Mao's widow and radical leader of the now discredited Gang of Four: She is a very, very evil woman. She is so evil that any evil thing you say about her is not evil enough...
...world's third most important financial capital, after New York and London, and a manufacturing center with exports greater than those of all mainland China. Britain has ruled the colony for 142 years under three treaties signed in the 19th century with imperial China's impotent Qing dynasty. One treaty grants Britain perpetual control over the island of Hong Kong and the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula. Two other pacts provide for British sovereignty over the outer "New Territories" until...