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...actress-wife Chiang Ching, 60, the party radicals are trying to keep ah've the intransigent revolutionary zeal of the Cultural Revolution. They see the pragmatic policies of Chou and the moderates threatening the purity of China's revolution. They are opposed, it seems, to Chou's tolerance of material incentives and his willingness to sacrifice ideological correctness for the sake of technical expertise. The most notable example is Chou's policy of detente with the West. Not only is accommodation with an imperialist country like the U.S. ideologically questionable, but trade with capitalist countries...
...spectacular sign of the strategy was the rise of a former Shanghai cotton-mill worker, Wang Hung-wen, 38, from virtual obscurity to vice chairman of the party. He now ranks below only Mao and Chou in the hierarchy. Since Wang is associated with such radical faction leaders as Chiang Ching and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan, his promotion indicated that the leftists could not simply be pushed aside as a political force...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
There was even a period in Chinese history when government officials, wishing to eliminate any remnants of Eastern thought in hopes of "catching up" with the West, prevented acupuncture and all traditional Chinese medicine from being taught. During the Chiang Kai-shek regime, the government only let new Western methods be taught in medical schools, and anyone caught practicing acupuncture was given a severe prison term...
...leftist factions within the Peking leadership that have been trying to turn the anti-Confucius ideological campaign into a broad attack on party moderates. The enhanced authority of the regular party apparatus appears to have tipped the power balance in favor of the moderates. Prominent leftists like Chiang Ching, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan have faded from public view. At the same time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative inactivity over the summer led to rumors that...