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...emerged as China's strongman, overshadowing Mao's titular successor as Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng. Teng has given supreme priority to reversing the disruptive effects of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which was zealously pursued for more than ten years by Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, and her radical colleagues. Twice toppled from power by the radicals, in 1966 and 1976, Teng has stepped from the political shadows, not only to supervise the disgracing of Chiang's Gang of Four, but to see his pragmatic goals adopted as the party...
...traces his routes, first as a stringer graduated to reporter for Time Magazine's Henry Luce, stationed in China to cover the Japanese invasion. Later he covered both the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the action of World War II. After disillusionment with Time's bias for Chiang K'ai-shek and a fight with Luce, White broke away from time and co-wrote a bestseller, Thunder Out of China (1946), dealing directly with what Time attempted to ignore...
...several months, wall posters in China's capital have been attacking Peking Mayor Wu Teh-most significantly as the RAT'S TAIL OF THE GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will...
...provinces that the long-running effort to wipe out the influence of the "Gang of Four" was encountering some unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still some officials, declared one newspaper darkly, who insisted upon "exercising fascist dictatorship over the people...
...supposedly "pure"-particularly by contrast with the bureaucratic stodginess of the Soviet Union. Yet that revolution, as the Chinese are now beginning to admit, grimly impoverished the country's science, art, education and literature for a decade. Even the Chinese advocates of "purity" during that time, Chiang Ch'ing and her cronies in the Gang of Four, turned out to have been as corrupt as the people in power they sought to replace. With less justification, there are intellectuals in the West so committed to the twin Molochs of our day-"liberation" and "revolution"-that they can actually...