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Such advantages for the few have stirred outrage among the many. Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted...
...year was 1949. Rapidly losing his battle with Mao Tse-tung for the Chinese mainland, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his son Chiang Ching-kuo to Taiwan. Strictly policing the island, the younger Chiang helped secure it for more than 1 million Nationalist refugees against both Communist infiltrators and the 7 million less-than-welcoming native Taiwanese. On May 19, 1949, martial law was imposed...
...Tse-tung once compared himself to a legendary "foolish old man" who picked away at mountains that obstructed the view from his house. Because his diligence found favor in heaven's eyes, the "foolish" man finally moved the mountains. Faced with a conservative backlash that has blocked his political and economic reforms since January, Deng Xiaoping, the current master of China, appears to be writing his own version of Mao's parable. Deng has resolutely continued to chip at the mountainous obstacles to his reform program. As a result, reformers seem to have regained the upper hand and positioned themselves...
Frank M.K. Tse...
...Tse- tung plunged China into the Cultural Revolution, a decade of madness during which millions were tortured or killed on ideological grounds. One victim was Nien Cheng, a diminutive but incredibly determined woman. In Life and Death in Shanghai, excerpted in this issue, she tells of her imprisonment, torture and ultimate triumph. See SPECIAL SECTION...