Word: zhou
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt, by sheer force of will, to march a deeply impoverished nation into the front ranks of modernity. The Leap's unscientific agricultural practices and inane technologies turned China into an immense archipelago of unproductive communes racked by famine. No one had clean hands--not the urbane Premier Zhou Enlai, who, though skeptical of collectivization, kept a polite silence; not the gentlemanly President Liu Shaoqi, who withdrew to the island of Hainan to avoid bringing up the subject of famine. Deng himself sycophantically proclaimed high expectations for grain harvests: "We can all have as much as we want...
...Deng's famous exhortation, "To get rich is glorious." Nowhere was the contrast to the past more evident than in Tiananmen square. It was here in April of 1976 where tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief over the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. That gathering soon snowballed into a public protest against Mao and the Gang of Four, triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square...
...petitions, sponsored by the Boston and Harvard-Radcliffe chapters of Amnesty International, demanded the "immediate and unconditional release" of Jigme Sangpo, Zhou Guoqiang, Wei Jingsheng and Tong...
...CONTAINMENT AND APPEASEMENT won't work with China, what should Washington do? Why not try the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, first initiated by Zhou Enlai in June 1954: "mutual respect, nonaggression, noninterference, mutual benefit and, finally, peaceful coexistence." WINBERG CHAI Professor of Political Science University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming...
...focus on the age issue. However, after four years of Clinton and his baby boomers, age may not prove to be a liability ... Most important, you have not lost any of your mental sharpness. Looking back over the years, I vividly recall that De Gaulle, Adenauer, Yoshida and Zhou Enlai were all in top form mentally in their...