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Deng's allies have seized upon the 30th anniversary of Mao Tse-tung's infamous 1956 Hundred Flowers campaign to urge intellectuals to produce new ideas. Still, many Chinese are understandably leery of the Double Hundred campaign, as it is called. They have not forgotten how Mao first lured scholars into exposing their views--"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"--and then purged those who opposed his policies. One victim of the 1956 campaign was Writer Wang Meng, whom Mao purged as an "antisocialist" and sent into internal exile for 24 years. Deng...
...Novelist Wang fell victim to Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "antirightist" cam- paign. On the basis of one short story published during the surge of creativity that followed the preceding Hundred Flowers movement, Wang was accused of "destructive, anti-party" sentiments...
...President Richard Nixon raised his glass in the Great Hall of the People and quoted from the popular poetry of Mao Tse-tung. " 'So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently,' " intoned Nixon. " 'Seize the day, seize the hour...
...resigned were a few supporters of Deng's modernization drive and daring economic reforms. The majority, however, belonged to an older, revolutionary generation whose primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers of Public Security, as well as such...
Chinese history is replete with tales of imperial intrigue and sanguinary succession struggles. No one, perhaps, understands the fate that may befall a leader's policies after his death better than Deng Xiaoping, who was twice purged by Mao Tse-tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast...