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Deng, who came to power in China in 1978, died Wednesday night in Beijing at the age of 92. He was one of the founding revolutionaries of Communist China, and was one of the last leaders to have participated in Mao Zedong's formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 (see story, page...
DIED. WANG LI, 75, radical leader and propagandist of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76) until he became the victim of a purge by Mao Zedong and was imprisoned for 15 years; in Beijing...
...born in Athens, Ohio in 1959, 10 years after her parents fled the reign of Mao Zedong in China. She will be given a Doctorate of Arts...
...first time in Harvard's nearly 350-year history, the students moving their sofas and Mao Zedong posters into the river houses in 1971 were not only Harvard men. Among the movers this time were women...
When Chiang Kai-shek lost the civil war to Mao Zedong in 1949 and fled to Taiwan, he took the cream of the imperial collection with him, 10,000 paintings and calligraphies, more than half a million objects, rare books and documents, in some 4,000 crates--an act of cultural looting (in Taiwan, read: salvage) that had few equals before and has had none since, though it is pointless to criticize such a fait accompli nearly 50 years later. Who knows what might have happened to the art at the hands of the Red Guards, for instance? Since then...