Word: tung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tung, in 1938, likened his guerilla war tactics to an oriental game called...
China announced Hua's appointment on February 7, approximately one month after the death of Premier Chou En-lai, who had generally been regarded as the number-two man in the Chinese hierarchy behind Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Terrill said appointment of Hua over Teng seems to indicate that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is still very much in power and that China is not going back to the leftist principles of the cultural revolution, because Hua does not represent those principles. "Hau is a front runner for the premiership," he added...
...Hong Kong and at the staid, very British Hong Kong Club flew at half mast, as did all the red banners in China. Chou Enlai, for a quarter century Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the able administrator of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's policies, was dead of cancer at the age of 77. A memorial service, with no foreign dignitaries present, was announced...
...20th century did more than Chou En-lai to forge the Chinese revolution and to change the shape of international politics. Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy. As the chief architect of China's foreign policy under Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he charted Peking's course of independence from the two superpowers, creating in the process a new world center of power and influence. Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian dexterity and a flair for the dramatic gesture. When he died of cancer last week...