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...formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...
...might yet prevail and be reconfirmed as Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality...
...campaign against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...
...judge as "liars" and "traitors." When it comes her turn to make her defense, possibly this week, Jiang Qing is almost certain to make a highly embarrassing claim: that all her allegedly criminal actions were legally approved by the party authorities at the time, including her husband Mao and China's late Premier Chou Enlai...
Still, patriarchal societies have weighed unevenly upon creative women in different times and places. In China and Japan, women poets have usually been highly regarded and their work is wonderfully well represented in this volume. The authors spring from all classes and conditions of life: an empress, an imperial courtesan, a Taoist priestess. In the 9th century, a legendary Japanese beauty, Ono no Komachi, voiced this complaint about her lover...