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...problem for Li, Yang, Qiao or anyone else trying to rule China in the post-Tiananmen era is not more street protests. In the few days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority...
Anti-government demonstrations spread to Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shenyang and other cities...
...contracts are just one in a dizzying array of Deng's market-oriented economic reforms. In China's first bankruptcy auction last week, the government sold a factory in northeastern Liaoning province to a worker-owned unit of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co. The plant went out of business in August after Peking decided to stop propping up money-losing ventures. In another move, limited stock trading began in Shanghai in a test that could lead to the creation of China's first stock exchange since...
...long as it catches mice." Capitalism is rapidly spreading from China's farms to its cities. Like Lima, Peking swarms with private vendors offering everything from soft drinks to socks. The hawkers cluster in 600 free markets in Peking and 61,000 throughout China. In the northeastern city of Shenyang, the government leases factories to individual managers, who can earn up to $19,000 a year, or nearly 60 times the average worker's wage. Another pilot program allows workers at some 20 Shenyang plants to buy shares in the facilities and earn cash profits...
...righteousness. Political analysts harp on two words: "speed" and "struggle." Mao had acquired the lust for speed in the last year of the revolution. In the fall of 1948 the commander in chief of his Manchurian strike forces, Marshal Lin Biao, had seized the key city of Shenyang (Mukden); but so many of Chiang Kai-shek's combat divisions were still at large in Manchuria that Lin Biao preferred to move with caution. Mao overruled him. Strike for the escape ports of Manchuria, he said, now. Cut them off. Field success vindicated him. Cut Peking off from Tianjin, Mao next...