Word: liang
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...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...
...feud with Viet Nam. Five people have been killed and 38 wounded by Vietnamese fire. In addition, according to Chinese officials in the Guangxi region, the Vietnamese have laid mines, damaged crops and on occasion sent bundle-toting water buffalo laden with leaflets and other propaganda across the border. Liang Xinghan, 26, a tractor driver in Pingmeng, says that he was wounded in the thigh by an enemy sniper last year. "I don't know why the Vietnamese shot me," he says. "I didn't oppose them or give them any trouble...
...FIRST TRAGEDY struck in his childhood, when his mother criticized a superior in a mandatory criticism session during the Hundred Flowers movement. Then that movement became the Anti-Rightist movement, and her superior got revenge by labelling her a rightist, Liang's father divorced her and the children shunned her to avoid being politically "questionable", but the party which claimed to transcend family ties would not ignore them. The father's accusers used his ex-wife as evidence against him later, and when the sister proved her loyalty enough to become a Red Guard member, she faced the anguish...
Even the neighborhood children joined in the systematic humiliation of the Liang's throwing rocks at the family's windows and beating up Liang Heng. Liang makes little criticism of them, for no one expects rationality from children. But when the cruel methods of public humiliation and torture spread to adults during the "Traveling Struggle" movement, the parallel is disturbing...
...book's lack of direct criticism of the society which allowed such cruelty may be as much a product of Liang's caution after his past troubles as of his belief in communist society. Even his father, always a devoted Maoist, tells him at one point to "never give your opinion on anything...even if you're asked directly. "Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit...