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Word: xiao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witnesses against her was Xiao Meng, head of an investigating team that Jiang assigned to collect incriminating evidence against Liu's wife Wang Guangmei. Dissatisfied with Xiao's initial report that Wang was an American spy Jiang not only threw him into jail for five years but ordered up a second report charging that Wang was at once an agent for the U.S., Japan and Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Defiant Widow in the Dock | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Great Leap Westward | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

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