Word: yuans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million men and women who live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects had to be carried by several trucks, and she occupied the entire guesthouse, which has a capacity of receiving more than...
...others were Wang Hung-wen, Chang Ch'unch'iao and Yao Wen-yuan...
...viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan-had simply been dropped from the Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long and close associations with China...
Bank Robberies. Meanwhile, the troops of the People's Liberation Army apparently surrounded Peking and Tsinghua universities, both bastions of radical support. Some 30 radicals were reported arrested for allegedly fabricating a will of Mao's; one of them was Mao's nephew Mao Yuan-hsin, vice chairman of the Liaoning provincial revolutionary committee; another was Yu Hui-yung, Minister of Culture and another Chiang Ch'ing protege. There were even rumors that one or more of the top four radicals had been executed, but that seemed extremely unlikely...
...trial. No individual stands accused. And the statement issued by the Executive Committee was, at the time, an expression of a desire to investigate and not a revelation of concrete plans to investigate. An investigation on the Executive Committee's part might not prove to be necessary. Robin T.W. Yuan President, H-R Chinese Student Association