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...poster campaign was the most dramatic expression of popular feeling in Peking since the death of Mao in 1976. In the largest single incident, 6,000 demonstrators, marching 30 abreast, paraded through the streets chanting slogans seldom heard in the People's Republic since the Communist takeover in 1949: "Long live democracy! We will never turn back!" Their destination was T'ien An Men Square, site of what had up to now been the most extraordinary political happening in China's recent past. In April 1976, throngs had congregated there to protest the removal of wreaths left...
...interview with Novak and in talks with two touring Japanese politicians, Teng demolished a number of Sinologists' preconceptions about the poster campaign. When the campaign began, it was widely believed that Teng was planning to replace Hua as Premier. Yet in a talk with Yoshikatsu Takeiri, head of Japan's Clean Government Party, the Vice Premier renounced any designs on that prestigious job. "I am too old and I wish to live longer," he explained. "A younger man is better for the job." (Hua is 57.) Similarly, al though few experts believe that the protesters would have denounced...
...week's end, Western experts were still trying to explain the sudden burst of free expression in a society notorious for its rigidity and repression. If the poster campaign was not calculated to push forward Teng's ambitions, what then was its purpose? One answer from Sinologists was that this calculated political performance was inspired by Teng to show both the Chinese and the Western world that the outpourings of grief over Chou's death were revolutionary acts. After some of the wall posters called for an ex post facto justification...
...current wall poster campaign has roots that date back to the Manchu dynasty (1644-1911). when imperial proclamations were pinned to city and palace gates. In the pre-World War II Kuomintang Republic, Communists used posters to inflame the local population against "the landlords who eat our flesh" and "the traitors who sell China to Japan." Poster polemics reached a new level of sophistication during the Cultural Revolution, when fanatical Red Guardsmen used them to attack "capitalist readers" like Teng Hsiao...
...start of the big poster campaign last month, foreign journalists and diplomats were permitted to read the posters carefully and to make notes. A week ago the atmosphere became even more friendly. Foreigners were greeted by smiles when they appeared in T'ien An Men Square or at the "democracy wall" poster site at the intersection of Chang An Avenue and Hsi Tan Street. They were quickly surrounded by eager citizens who besieged them for calling cards and engaged them in impromptu political seminars. Says Fraser: "It was electric. You went down to look at the posters, and suddenly...