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...President Jiang Zemin happened years ago and is locked firmly in place: Jiang was Deng's chosen successor, and he has handily gathered up the reins of power. Well, it would not be China or the Communist Party if that were true. Even under the red emperors Mao Zedong and Deng, as with the real emperors of the past, there were constant plots and purges. But Chinese and Western experts do generally agree that none of Jiang's potential rivals have the strength to replace him in the short term...
...future accounts of China. These parallels seem to fit fairly neatly into two molds. One, familiar from several earlier dynasties, is the role of the man who has the delicate task of consolidating the work of an ambitious, tough, erratic though canny, and self-aggrandizing reunifier of China. Mao Zedong, like a select number of earlier Emperors, played the unifier's role in drawing China together again in 1949 after a half-century of nightmarish domestic turbulence, civil war and foreign invasion. It fell to Deng Xiaoping, again like certain historical precursors, to take this mixed legacy and secure...
...communist was ordered to the backcountry of Guangxi province in the far south, where he was to organize ragtag rebels to seize huge cities. Deng went loyally, even though he knew the task was impossible. The journey, however, proved to be momentous. On it he met up with Mao Zedong...
...Leaders are men, not gods," said Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong, the man who would be a god, lies embalmed and displayed in his mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. Deng has asked that his eyes be donated to medicine, his ashes be cast into the sea and no monuments be built to him. Mao had resided in Zhongnanhai, the walled district of Beijing that is China's new Forbidden City; Deng chose to live not in Zhongnanhai but in a block-long house called Miliangku (literally "rice-grain storehouse"), not far away. It was there that China's unquestioned leader, its emperor...
...when she crossed the country in a Model T Ford, chronicling her travels in letters to her brother, who sent them to the New Yorker. She wrote for the magazine throughout her life, becoming its China correspondent in 1935. In China she became temporarily addicted to opium, befriended Mao Zedong and met her future husband, a British intelligence officer by whom she proudly had a child out of wedlock...