Word: zedong
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There seems to exist every reason to foresee a crisis in a tacit, longtime, mutual appeasement. Forty five years ago, because of the military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After spending some time interpreting Mao's "mercy," Chiang also subdued his obsession of recapturing the mainland, and his dream of visiting his hometown one more time gradually faded away. With the United States in between, relative peace was achieved out of a forced balance of explosive tension...
...policies that are in favor. Chen's death was long expected, and the delay in mounting his funeral has intensified fears of confusion and factionalism within the government. Chinese history is replete with episodes of political chaos following the death of an Emperor, and Deng Xiaoping, like Mao Zedong before him, is universally viewed in imperial terms. Official rhetoric has portrayed a new core leadership headed by party secretary Jiang Zemin, ready to step into the shoes of the nonagenarians who joined Mao on the Long March and have have ruled the country since 1949. Jiang is the third would...
...prize catch," writes Griffith of the 26-year-old Harvard graduate who had gone to China as a flack for Chiang in his battles against both the Japanese army and the communist legions, led by Mao Zedong. Both those struggles were holy wars for Luce, the son of Presbyterian missionaries in China. White was indeed a prize who would go on to become perhaps the greatest journalist of his time, chronicling (mostly in books written after his tenure at TIME, from 1941 to 1946) the wars and corruptions of Chiang and Mao, the postwar rebuilding of Europe and the making...
DIED. LI ZHISUI, 75, Mao Zedong's former physician; in Chicago. He was Mao's loyal confidant from 1954 to the Chinese leader's death in '76-an experience Li recounted in his 682-page The Private Life of Chairman Mao. Propelled by Li's attend-and-tell tales of Mao's keen sexual appetites and grotesque personal hygiene, the book shot up the best-seller list last fall. DIED. L.C. GRAVES, 76, police detective; in Kaufman, Texas. It is an enduring image: Lee Harvey Oswald walking through the basement of the Dallas police building, his upper arm gripped...
...Communist Party's errors, the most serious was its failure to deal with the vast, impoverished countryside and the 700 million mostly poor peasants. It charged the intelligentsia with forgetting how to think. Most shocking, it asked directly whether the post-Deng leadership should adopt some of Mao Zedong's more centralized policies...