Word: wen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most spectacular sign of the strategy was the rise of a former Shanghai cotton-mill worker, Wang Hung-wen, 38, from virtual obscurity to vice chairman of the party. He now ranks below only Mao and Chou in the hierarchy. Since Wang is associated with such radical faction leaders as Chiang Ching and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan, his promotion indicated that the leftists could not simply be pushed aside as a political force...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
According to the Chinese, "acupuncturation," the art of acupuncture, originated under the reign of Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, who acceded to the thrown in 2704 B.C. A book called Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen (The Yellow Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine), which was written around 400 A.D., relates many of the emperor's tales of acupuncture. One tale, for example, tells of a soldier who was hit with an arrow and noticed an improvement in an illness affecting a completely different part of his body...
Chou's attack on the U.S. and his pointed ridicule of two of Nixon's favorite phrases were not isolated incidents. Two days later, Wang Hung-wen, party vice-chairman and No. 3 man in Peking's Politburo, accused the U.S. of having directly "engineered the reactionary coup d'état" of 1970, which toppled Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Wang described "U.S. imperialism" as "armed to the teeth"-a highly belligerent image in Chinese...
...their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. By his side were two of his most powerful critics: Wang Hung-wen and Chiang Ching...