Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Religious Zeal. That outcry against the radicals' campaigns has been echoed in other wall posters witnessed by travelers to China. One apparently authentic article that surfaced in Taiwan, reportedly from a high-ranking officer in the Tientsin garrison command, complains that "the result of incessant campaigns has already been mutual distrust among the people, the cadres and the leaders, which affects unity and obstructs progress...
...Tientsin, 90 miles away, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was rudely awakened in his suite on the eighth floor of his hotel, a new building of modern design, when it began shaking "like an accordion." As he and his wife Margaret hurried down the stairs to the safety of the street, the hotel began whipping back and forth, as she put it, "in a way that suggested it was deciding whether or not to topple. All of us were thinking, 'My God, this has gone on long enough...
...quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions (see map), a swatch of Hopei province bordering the Gulf of Po Hai and encompassing not only Peking and its 7.5 million inhabitants but also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only "great losses to the people, life and property" and turned aside foreign offers of aid, but it also rallied troops and civilian rescue teams to deal with the disaster...
...unnamed target was Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who until recently had been regarded by Western Sinologists as the most plausible successor to the late Chou En-lai as the No. 2 man in China. Last week for the first time, posters in Peking, Shanghai and Tientsin denounced Teng by name. He thus joins a very select group of ideological villains who have been specifically denounced in China's waves of usually indirect criticism. Among the others: former Head of State Liu Shao-ch'i, the chief victim of the Cultural Revolution...
Horrible Monster. One wall poster at Peking University lumped all three villains together as "the horrible three-headed monster." In Tientsin, Teng was in a poster cartoon as the leader of an orchestra consisting of all of China's "right deviationists." The key charge against him is that he falsified Mao's instructions. Under Chou and Teng, party propaganda-duly citing Mao-emphasized three main goals for the country: 1) studying the Chairman's teachings about the dictatorship of the proletariat, 2) promoting national unity, and 3) boosting production...