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MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Cleveland Museum of Art. The show's 76 treasures, lent by the Palace Museum in Beijing, consist mostly of painted scrolls from China's last two imperial dynasties (1368-1644 and 1644-1911). Through...
MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Cleveland Museum of Art. Lent by the Palace Museum in Beijing, this show offers 76 treasures, mostly painted scrolls, from China's last two imperial dynasties (1368-1644 and 1644-1911). Through...
...club-wielding police. The demonstrations were widely interpreted as a revolt against the leftist policies of the so- called Gang of Four, who at the time had effectively seized power from the dying Mao Zedong. Two days later the Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, sacked Deng, the recently rehabilitated Senior Deputy Premier whom they suspected of masterminding the demonstrations. But after Mao died five months later, the military overthrew the Gang of Four and Deng returned to power...
...Chinese already dominate women's diving. At a mere 5 ft. 3 in., 1986 World Champion Gao Min, 17, seems certain to take the gold medal on the springboard with her clockwork precision. Teammate Li Qing, 16, will vie for the silver with American Kelly McCormick. Meanwhile, Xu Yanmei and Chen Xiaodan could finish first and second in the platform contest. In the men's events, '84 Silver Medalist Tan Liangde will test Louganis' nerve and verve on the springboard, while Li Kongzheng will chase Louganis on the platform...
...Nadezhda Krupskaya was similarly well educated and strong willed. But she was a prominent revolutionary before she married and never played the part of First Lady. Contemporary examples elsewhere in the Communist world are uninspiring: in Rumania Nicolae Ceausescu's widely reviled wife Elena; in China the disgraced Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow. Leonid Brezhnev's daughter Galina, once hailed as the East bloc's answer to Jacqueline Kennedy, later achieved notoriety by associating with shady characters...