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...affront to the country's sovereignty. Reports that Britain, France and Italy had agreed at Versailles to support Japanese claims to Shandong sparked a demonstration of some 5,000 students in Peking on May 4, 1919, and protests at more than a dozen universities across the country. Mao Tse-tung later labeled the "May 4 movement," as it came to be called, "an anti-imperialist and antifeudal bourgeois-democratic revolution in China." The protests ushered in a decade of radical opposition to foreign encroachment...
...encounter was not merely a reunion between two long-lost comrades. For nearly a quarter-century, the Chinese and East Europeans have been bitter ideological enemies. All East bloc governments except Rumania froze relations with China in the early 1960s, following Mao Tse-tung's falling out with Moscow over doctrinal disagreements. Honecker's trip to China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more...
...Deng Xiaoping. Beginning this week, all state-owned enterprises will be allowed to hire some workers under contracts similar to Li's. The change represents a dramatic turning away from the system of lifetime employment that the Chinese have clung to since the Communists took power under Mao Tse-tung in 1949. Says Max Boisot, a Peking-based British economist: "This is probably the biggest step of all Deng's reforms. If it succeeds, a lot of others will fall into place...
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...