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Like Deng, who was hounded into exile by rampaging Red Guard demonstrators at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Jiang believes only a strong hand can stave off chaos in China. Yet time may be running out on that formula. Even now, says Mineo Nakajima, a Sinologist at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Jiang is using the police and security forces to control social unrest, but he will have difficulty if it continues to escalate." The country's volatile economic situation and its corruption accentuate the widespread sense of unfairness, feeding the "red-eye disease"--envy...
...weighs in with a major political critique, he almost automatically becomes a sensation. The latest proof of that is author Wang Shan. When he published his book, Viewing China Through a Third Eye, last year, Wang tried to protect himself by presenting it as the work of a German sinologist. Only after party chief Jiang had praised the book and more than 200,000 copies had been sold was its true authorship revealed...
China welcomes the current confusion as an aid to retaining its preferred- trading status with the U.S. "Beijing figures its chances improve if it is perceived as the single source capable of constructively pressuring Pyongyang," explains an Administration sinologist, even though the evidence suggests China did little if anything to encourage Kim's latest maneuver...
...party pursued a campaign against "bourgeois liberalism." Chinese officials worry about the growing number of cases of corruption, fraud, theft and prostitution that have come to light since the reforms began. The outside world cannot be blamed for all such symptoms of social malaise. Says a Moscow sinologist: "The greatest danger facing China is not capitalism. You can treat bourgeois liberalism just as you would a case of the grippe. The real threat to China is a feudal way of thinking. It is like a chronic, incurable case of asthma...
...tolerated by his comrades on the condition that he keep his new commonlaw wife away from politics. But when Mao launched China on the chaotic Cultural Revolution in the mid-'60s, Jiang Qing rose to become the shrill tyrant of the movement. "Sex," she once confided to American Sinologist Roxane Witke, "is engaging in the first rounds. What sustains interest in the long run is power...