Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in five years there were announcements of "mobilization rallies" of the masses to denounce the sins of China's two new "monsters and demons." A wall poster, charging Lin Piao with revisionist thinking, appeared on the docks in Shanghai, and for three nights running Peking television showed huge new screens being set up at Peking University; they obviously would soon carry their own slogans supporting the new campaign. For two days last week the entire front page of People's Daily was devoted to a formal announcement of "a mass movement initiated and personally...
...deference to Kissinger's new status as Secretary of State, the Chinese welcomed him with more protocol and ceremony than usual. Kissinger's plane was allowed to fly directly to Peking airport instead of making the normally prescribed stopover at Shanghai to pick up a Chinese navigator. Just 2½ hours after his arrival, he was greeted by Premier Chou En-lai at a banquet in the Great Hall of the People. Chou, now 75, complimented Kissinger on becoming Secretary of State while "you are still young and vigorous." He also said that the Japanese press had dubbed...
When the discussions finally wound up in midweek, the two governments released a joint communique that officials described as a "subtle roadmap" for future relations. In most respects it was similar to the carefully nuanced Shanghai communique issued after President Nixon's February 1972 visit, which formulated the "one China" principle -that is, that Taiwan is a part of China. The issue was defined then as one for the two parties to work out for themselves. This time, however, that statement was omitted, which some American officials interpret as meaning that it is up to the U.S. to make...
Specialists called in from Peking, Shanghai and Canton discovered from chemical analysis of Lady Li's hair and tissues from her stomach, liver, muscles and bone that she had type A blood. Gynecological examination revealed that she had borne children...
...surprise was the election of a relatively youthful (37) Shanghai party leader, Wang Hung-wen, as one of the five vice chairmen. A onetime textile worker and later a boss of the city's rampaging Red Guards, Wang has powerful patrons-among them Mao's wife Chiang Ching. At the Congress, Wang gave the important report on the revision of the party constitution-a role possibly assigned by Mao himself. These developments make Wang one of the party's most important leaders...