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...young scholar (Fu Peng) passes the door of a farmer's daughter (Zhao Yanxia) and starts the usual boy-meets-girl talk. The situation progresses, and they burst into song, both in falsetto, until a matchmaker comes along and provides the mandatory happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: China's Whirling Kaleidoscope | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...will resign as Premier when the People's Congress meets later this month. Though Hua will reportedly retain the post of Chairman that was held by Mao, the party leaders are expected to act on proposals to reduce greatly the power of that office. Hua's successor, Zhao Ziyang, 61, is the hand-picked candidate of the Senior Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping. Like Deng, Zhao is one of the many who have once again risen to power in China, after being ignominiously purged by Mao during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Lowering Mao | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...generation of Chinese leaders moved an important step closer to power last week when the National People's Congress, meeting in Standing Committee, promoted two provincial protégés of Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Former Sichuan Province Governor Zhao Ziyang, 61, and former Anhui Province Party Leader Wan Li, 64, were both elevated to the rank of Vice Premier; to make room for them, two longtime holdovers from the fading era of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung were asked to resign. Zhao in particular was singled out by Deng as the new administrator who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Beyond the First Euphoria | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...Secretariat that had been dissolved during the Cultural Revolution. Many analysts believe that the Secretariat will soon become a key decision-making authority within the Politburo. Its new head, Hu Yaobang, is one of Deng's key allies. The Central Committee also elevated Hu and another Deng protege, Zhao Ziyang, to the powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo. Zhao, 61, is considered to be a rising star in Chinese politics and a potential successor to Deng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Resurrection from the Dustbin | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...China on an irreversible course toward modernization. One way was to pack China's governing institutions with his supporters: on the eve of the anniversary, twelve elderly victims of the Cultural Revolution were elevated to the Central Committee while two other longtime Deng allies, Peng Zhen, 77, and Zhao Ziyang, 61, were added to the select Politburo. Deng could thus count on the loyalty of 19 of the 29 members of China's top ruling body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Second Thoughts on the Chairman | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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