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Harriet Watt's career in journalism began in 1945, when she became business manager of TIME's Shanghai bureau. She did not last long. Nor did the bureau. As the Communist forces of Mao Zedong swept to power in 1949, Watt's TIME colleagues were evacuated to Hong Kong and she followed. The Communists were not sorry to see her go. Recalls Watt, now 70: "They considered me a running dog of the imperialists...
President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan was so unlike his famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week...
...first since 1982, had long been seen as a watershed event, the meeting at which Deng would consolidate the controversial economic and political reforms he began in 1979. Less than a year ago, sinologists speculated that the octogenarians who have run the country since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976 would use the occasion to cede control to younger, reform-minded leaders. In the end Deng Xiaoping resigned from some powerful posts, but he will still remain in a key military position and will continue to be the final arbiter of Chinese political life...
...Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Indeed, questions about the limits of the new reforms will be on the minds of the Kremlin's leaders as they mark the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, just as the issue was discussed by those gathered in Beijing's Great Hall...
Moreover, widespread disillusion with Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as providing any kind of guide for China's modernization deprives the party of its basis of legitimacy and ideologues of any weapon in their fight for the soul of young China. Even Deng has had to mention force as a way of subduing the students, who have been, ironically, among his strongest backers. If he has to employ it, that would be a tragic denouement for the most hopeful period since Mao's revolutionary victory...