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...when at 18 he was booted into exile. Later, the Japanese made him the puppet ruler of conquered Manchuria. Still later, the People's Republic of China made him a prisoner, charged with war crimes and ripe for nearly a decade of ideological "remolding." Finally Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, was rewarded with the one title he could gracefully live up to: citizen. He spent the remainder of his days working as a gardener, writing his memoirs and claiming to have found happiness at last...
...members reportedly rejected several prominent taizi pai as delegates. Among them: Chen Yuan, the son of Politburo Member Chen Yun and a member of the standing committee of the Peking Municipal Party, and Chen Haosu, Vice Minister of Radio, Film and Television and son of the late Marshal Chen Yi. Yet neither is finished in politics. Insiders expect Chen Yuan to be named Deputy Party Secretary in Peking, while Chen Haosu is likely to be elected to the Central Committee at the upcoming Congress. "They don't have to be party delegates to move on," says a Peking intellectual...
...Madam," he said, rolling his r's even though there were none in the word, "I will love you forever. !Ay yi yi yi yi...
...wife, Jiang Qing, had the young poet beaten and thrown into prison for his temerity. While he was in jail, Chen continued to write poems, one of which--a eulogy for Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi, who died in 1972--also found its way into a collection of Mao's works...
...adds diversity," said Tau-Mu Yi...