Word: zemin
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...foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
...students?for that is what an improvement in political thinking means?is not the kind of reform many people expected from Hu. Although his rise to power betrayed little of his political leanings, Hu had left hints that he was more open to political change than his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. He rose through the ranks of the Party's more liberal organs, such as the Communist Youth League, helped terminate a crackdown on intellectuals in the early 1980s, and urged high-ranking cadres to study foreign political systems in the 1990s. Since assuming China's top posts?Hu replaced Jiang...
...arrested last year, is the highest-ranking Chinese official to be convicted of spying for a Western government. The South China Morning Post reported that he was paid more than $700,000 by the British Secret Service for sharing classified information, including the itinerary for former President Jiang Zemin's 2001 visit to Hong Kong...
...BOSS? China's Jiang Zemin, left, made his designated heir, Hu Jintao, party chief in '02 and President in '03. But only last month did he hand over the top military post...
...Chairman Mao has failed: pulling off a leadership transition without purges, midnight arrests or blood in the streets. Although the 61-year-old Hu is already China's President and chief of the Communist Party, until last week he still shared power with his 78-year-old predecessor, Jiang Zemin, who retained his post as chairman of the Central Military Commission...