Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anyi and his wife Li Lanting, the street scenes in Beijing last week seemed eerily reminiscent of another spasm of unrest that began to rock China 23 years ago. Then, as now, students marched in the streets by the hundreds of thousands, waving red flags and chanting slogans defying an entrenched political establishment. Destination: Tiananmen Square. Then, as now, the demonstrators vilified aging national leaders -- including, as he must have recalled bitterly last week, Deng Xiaoping, then Communist Party General Secretary, who at one point was paraded around Beijing wearing a dunce...
...students of 1966 were the Red Guards, and for nearly a decade their movement convulsed the country in chaos, violence and dictatorial excess. Millions of Chinese, including nearly everyone who enjoyed a privileged status, were sent to "re-education camps" in the countryside, where they underwent humiliating rituals of "self-criticism." Political leaders who had been trying to modernize China's economy were branded "capitalist roaders" and in many cases were read out of the party and power. In the name of glorifying the "masses" and "bombarding the bourgeois headquarters," libraries were ransacked, factories and schools closed, and the country...
...Anyi, then a senior manager in the Ministry of Petroleum, found himself a target because he had worked on Taiwan prior to choosing to return to the mainland shortly before the Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course...
Furthermore, despite the uncertainty as to where the student demonstrations may lead, there is no evidence that the movement is running amuck. Yang Ting (not his real name), a 20-year-old Red Guard in 1966 and now an interpreter, recalls with a shudder the killing and widespread looting during those years. "From the very outset this time, the movement was well organized and the students did not harbor any intention to tear apart the Communist Party." Another positive sign, he says, is that the "students' demands conformed with the wishes and will of the broad masses, especially the calls...
Then we heard the words that would set us free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...