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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...
...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...
...Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit the "leftist" policies of Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, and her "Gang of Four", Liang sees those policies as the source of the problems he narrates, and properly disassociates the new from the old regime. Significantly, the book shows almost no opinion on the new regime or its policies, and that reticence renders many of Liang's observation ambiguous...
...found guilty of "towering and heinous" crimes and unceremoniously hustled out of court, defiantly screaming, "Down with revisionism!" Jiang Qing, now 69, Chairman Mao's headstrong widow and imperious ringleader of the leftist Gang of Four, was sentenced to death, but given two years in prison to repent...