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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students. Only the party turmoil may have delayed him from lining up support for his position. The massive sweep through Tiananmen could not have been facilitated without the cooperation of the various military factions that owe fealty to such veterans of the revolutionary war as Yang, Li and Peng Zhen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despair and Death In a Beijing Square | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...radical innovations such as profits and private ownership that Deng, 82, has begun. On the other are mostly aging hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Settling for A Stalemate | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...emerging as Deng's leading rival is another octogenarian, Peng Zhen, 84, chairman of the National People's Congress and a Marxist of the old school. Peng, a contender for top party posts in the early 1960s, was purged in 1966. He is reported to be bitter that he has never been elevated by Deng to the party's top echelon. However, he has turned the Congress, once a legislative rubber stamp, into a center for opposition to Deng's reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Battle of the Octogenarians | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

China's power struggle is likely to continue at least until the 13th Communist Party Congress in September. In the meantime, Deng and the other reformers will be trying to push their people into top posts, while Peng Zhen and the conservatives try to turn back the changes that Deng has introduced in recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Battle of the Octogenarians | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

After a night of frenzied dancing, Zhen Zhen came to grief when her boyfriend entered the room while she was taking a bath. Yen Li, who yearned to be an actress, lost her virtue when a wily actor insidiously told her that Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren devoted their lives--and their bodies--to art. The pivotal event of Li Na's life occurred when her date tricked her into watching a porn movie. "She was shocked by the movements on the screen, and she felt warm and suffocated. As she was about to unbutton her collar to breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Some Stirrings on the Mainland | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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