Word: xiang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...
...rear children properly. Some of these parents apply immense pressure on the children to succeed where they themselves have not. Many hire experts to teach the toddlers music, calligraphy or a foreign language. A few even force their sons and daughters to parrot elegant Tang dynasty poetry. Says Fang Xiang, a retired child psychologist: "There is no need for tutoring in composition or arithmetic. What's important is moral education at home...
...surprisingly, the flood of new wealth has begun to produce a Chinese version of the affluent society. At the Xiang Jiang state farm near Mao's birthplace in Hunan province, which was renowned a dozen years ago for its spartan housing and inadequate sanitation, TV antennas now protrude from rooftops and pop music blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group...
...transfer of power is now going on as far down as the six-man oligarchy of Peking can reach. But it is so delicate that their government tiptoes as if through a minefield. To talk about this process, I called on Huan Xiang, a vice president of the Academy of Social Sciences in Peking. Huan too had been humiliated, purged and rusticated. After the Gang of Four was wiped out, he came back to Peking. The old soldiers knew that matters had gone wrong ?but only scholars could say how and why. So they called in the scholars, Huan...
...intellectuals "the stinking ninth category," in the pungent rhetoric of the Red Guards. Few scientists, writers or professors were able to avoid terms of "reform through labor." The victims use a different phrase today: "being sent to the countryside." Many were so persecuted that they committed suicide. Says Huan Xiang, vice president we the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: 'Tor years we imbued ourselves in dogma. Our heads were down and our feet were up in the air. Now we have our feet back on the ground...