Word: tse-tung
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...period of great historical change." Its publication, declared the people's daily, was "a major event in the political life of the party." From across the country, provincial leaders sent messages extolling the author as "the Helmsman" and "the Chief Architect," encomiums that were once reserved for Mao Tse-tung. In bookstores Chinese readers snapped up 2 million copies on the first day of sale, and the first printing of 12 million quickly sold...
...country. Foreign opportunists skirmish for treasure. And China's peasants, as always, work, sweat and starve. Malcolm Bosse's novel re-creates the epoch and peoples it with an indelible cast, including a rising warlord named Chiang Kai-shek and a budding revolutionary called Mao Tse-tung...
...years ago, Liu's activities would have landed her in jail for profiteering. But that was before Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976. Under the economic reforms introduced by Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, most efforts to turn a quick profit are being encouraged...
...parliament that convenes for about two weeks every year, unanimously approved a new constitution late last week. The lack of suspense belied the significance of the vote: the latest charter, the fourth since the Communist takeover in 1949, sweeps away many of the last vestiges of the late Mao Tse-tung and institutionalizes the reforms of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping...
...constitution reorganizes the government and highlights differences between party and state. It restores the post of state chairman, scrapped by Mao Tse-tung in 1968, and sets up a central military commission to take control of the roughly 4 million-strong People's Liberation Army from the party. The charter also marks the eclipse of the people's communes, one of Mao's proudest legacies, by taking away the political duties of its leaders...