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...become maximum leader. From the time Kim Il Sung sent his tanks rolling across the Demilitarized Zone in 1950, precipitating the cold war's first hot conflict and bloodshed on a grand scale, Beijing has been wedded to the fortunes of North Korea's founder, a man Mao Zedong embraced as a strong ally. Over the years the friendship sweetened and soured, but the alliance remained fast. Evidence that Deng Xiaoping's China was withholding approval of the designated heir was a potent signal. Of the dynastic passing of power, a Chinese academic remarked, "China cannot criticize...
China has come a long way since Mao Zedong tried to rekindle its revolutionary fervor with his proclaimed Cultural Revolution of 1966. The subsequent and more moderate leadership of Deng Xiaoping has made a cautious and gradual attempt at economic liberalization. As China undertakes this difficult transition from Communism to capitalism, the U.S. must take care not disrupt China's progress while trying to hasten...
...worthwhile to remember that such art -- which, mutatis mutandis, has also been the formal state style of Hitler, Mao Zedong and not a few minor figures including Saddam Hussein -- has meant more to more people in the past 60 years than all the sanctified Modernist styles, from Fauvism to Pop, rolled together. Like Modernism's, its roots lay in the 19th century. If Modernism grew from Manet, Monet and Cezanne, Socialist Realism emerged from their conservative opposition -- the academic and narrative work that was the institutional art of Europe a century ago. In Russia the hugely popular landscapes and genre...
...convincingly has he left his stamp on the country that many Chinese will find it difficult to envision a China without Deng. After the ruinous years of the Cultural Revolution and the death of Mao Zedong, Deng consolidated his power. In 1978 he dropped Marxist orthodoxy to begin economic reforms he hoped would make China "a modern, powerful socialist country." He and his disciples insist they are creating a "socialist market economy," an oxymoron they interpret officially as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." While they cling to such slogans to bolster their positions, in practice they are producing capitalism with Chinese...
...1980S CHINA'S REFORMIST LEADERSHIP TRIED to keep top posts in the ruling Communist Party separate from those of the government. That campaign reversed a tradition established by no less a figure than Mao Zedong, who served simultaneously as party chief and head of state from 1954 to 1959. Now the pendulum seems headed back toward the direction of double dipping -- and a reconsolidation of official power in party hands...