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Ebbing Power. Radical party members, though active at the Congress, were virtually excluded from its appointments. Even Mao's wife Chiang Ching, whose influence soared spectacularly last year, failed to be named Minister of Culture, a post she had filled unofficially but dictatorially since the days of the Cultural Revolution. Instead, the post went to a little-known opera composer, Yu Hui-yung. Yu's promotion will by no means eliminate the radicals' influence in the cultural realm, but it does indicate an ebbing of their power in an area they long dominated...
...tung, 81, has been something of a mystery. For the past three months, Mao has been out of Peking and on the move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over by his Deputy Premiers...
Continuing Conflict. Is Mao still in control? Has Chou lost his once unquestioned power? Is Chiang Ching plotting to take over after Mao is gone from the scene? In the West, at least, there are no definite answers to these vital questions. But there are numerous signs in China of serious problems of disunity and factionalism. The theoretical journal Red Flag this month carried a frank admission of trouble within the party ranks. One article spoke of "indiscipline or anarchy existing in many places" and warned that "a small number of party members are asserting 'independence' from...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
...campaign against Confucius and Lin Piao, which, according to People's Daily was "personally launched" by Mao Tse-tung, did more than just lower the status of the army. Although apparently intended by Mao to combat ideological backsliding, the campaign quickly became tangled in the question of succession. Chiang Ching and her radical cohorts, who had faded from view since their days of pre-eminence during the Cultural Revolution, seized on the campaign to enhance their own political positions. They used the confusing but time-honored Chinese tradition of attacking the living by drawing carefully worded analogies...