Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking. Indeed, travelers returning from the Paoting area reported that armed rebels supporting Chiang Ch'ing's leftists had raped women, robbed banks, raided ammunition dumps, blown up factories, hijacked military vehicles and disrupted rail traffic. According to other reports, disturbances have also occurred in Hupei, Honan and Shansi provinces as well as in Fukien, where 12,000 troops had to be sent to quell followers of the Gang of Four, who were "disturbing the army" and "sabotaging the party's unified leadership." Radio broadcasts have also reported that "criminal gangs are threatening public order" in Chekiang province...
...press and radio reports in China's provinces accusing Chiang Ch'ing's supporters of widespread sabotage and inciting to riot. If only a fraction of these charges are true, there may be far greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing the protracted unrest in Hupei and Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said...
Meteoric Rise. Chou's successor has had a relatively meteoric rise. He is a native of Shansi province in northern China, where he joined the Communist Party. Hua went to Hunan prov ince as a minor party official about the time the Communists came to power in 1949. In the early 1950s, after gaining a reputation as an expert in agriculture, he was made party secretary in Mao's home county of Hsiang-t'an. Hua achieved brief nationwide notice by writing an article for Study magazine, the party's theoretical journal, on the changing class...
...recent months his public role has increased. Last September he led an important government delegation to Tibet. Soon after, he presided over the highly publicized agriculture meetings held in Shansi province and later Peking, where he gave the keynote speech. It was very Maoist, emphasizing that China must continue to advance toward Communism since the present system of wages and material incentives is "unegalitarian...
...tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed her proletarian stuff by donning peasant clothing and setting to work shoveling the good earth from a nearby irrigation...