Word: wuhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem for Li, Yang, Qiao or anyone else trying to rule China in the post-Tiananmen era is not more street protests. In the few days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority...
...start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the P.L.A. initially stood aloof. As the Red Guards ran amuck, Mao Zedong urged the military to challenge them -- but with rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan district, the military commander, General Chen Zaidao, was ordered to support the local Red Guard faction. He refused and seized as hostages three party officials who were sent to confront him. Premier Zhou Enlai had to negotiate their release...
According to some reports, Deng last week traveled to Wuhan and Shanghai to rally the support of the generals. There is little doubt that his survival depends on the good offices of the P.L.A. To the rebellious students and their supporters, Deng, the progenitor of reform, is now viewed as an autocratic and imperious obstacle to it. It must have been particularly galling that many of the demonstrators' abusive slogans echoed his own words. WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RETIRE? read one sign in the square, reflecting Deng's frequent statement that he cannot step down because the country needs...
Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall reaction from the continent was restrained, reflecting the conflicting nuances of Africa's dealings with China: gratitude for decades of Chinese support; familiarity with Chinese ; racism, which has been intensified by economic frustrations; and worries about how to protect existing links with Beijing...
...more remarkable change occurred in the industrial city of Wuhan this month when West German Engineer Werner Gerich was appointed director of a diesel-engine factory. He was the first foreigner ever named to such a management job since the Communist victory in 1949. As a consultant to the Wuhan plant, the West German had so impressed officials with a detailed critique of the factory's shortcomings that they voted to make him the manager. Gerich has already begun to carry out his own suggestions, including a rule that forbids newspaper reading on the job. He is also seeking...