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China's top leadership, now that Deng Xiaoping is gone, looks like the ducks on a quiet pond in Zhongnanhai, the palatial government compound in Beijing. The ducks swim along serenely and smoothly. But below the surface their legs are paddling furiously, spreading unseen turbulence. They may or may not change places in their parade, but everyone watching knows that real effort goes into...
...Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong, the man who would be a god, lies embalmed and displayed in his mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. Deng has asked that his eyes be donated to medicine, his ashes be cast into the sea and no monuments be built to him. Mao had resided in Zhongnanhai, the walled district of Beijing that is China's new Forbidden City; Deng chose to live not in Zhongnanhai but in a block-long house called Miliangku (literally "rice-grain storehouse"), not far away. It was there that China's unquestioned leader, its emperor without portfolio, enjoyed his family, played...
...might be dead. As FlorCruz raced to the TIME bureau, driving past Tiananmen Square and the residences of the top Communist Party officials, he could tell something was amiss; police at each intersection were waving motorists to the side so that black cars with flashing red lights could enter Zhongnanhai, the party headquarters. Within hours, Deng's death had been confirmed, and deputy managing editor Jim Kelly had given the go-ahead for this week's cover package...
That did not appear to matter in the red-walled Zhongnanhai compound, where China's leaders live and work. The dead apparently did not matter either to the aging revolutionaries who came to power by force 40 years ago -- and used force to keep it. Reason itself did not seem to matter. The government that once trumpeted the need to "seek truth from facts" manufactures facts to buttress lies...
...estimated 30,000 students demanding democracy and the legalization of their newly formed independent student union poured out of 40 Beijing colleges to take part in the ten-hour trek from their campuses to Tiananmen Square, a short distance from Zhongnanhai, where China's leaders live and work. Again tens of thousands of workers joined them, shouting encouragement. One worker held up a sign in crude English letters: I LOVE YOU. A waitress scribbled a message on a piece of paper and pasted it on the window of a bus. "You must be exhausted, students," it read...