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The most memorable event in the life of Mao Zedong's immediate successor, Hua Guofeng, who has died at the age of 87, was a conversation with the chairman which, in reality, may never have taken place. In April 1976, in the dying phase of the...
BAO TONG was a witness to the bitter internal struggle that
gripped the Community Party leadership in 1989 as it debated what
to do about the democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. In the end,
the People's Army slaughtered hundreds of...
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Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong who was...
Background
Zhao Ziyang (simplified Chinese: 赵紫阳; traditional Chinese: 趙紫陽; pinyin: Zhào Zǐyáng; Wade-Giles: Chao Tzu-yang) (October 17, 1919–January 17, 2005) was a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking government official, he was a leading reformer who implemented market reforms that greatly increased production and sought measures to streamline the bloated bureaucracy and fight corruption. Once slated as Deng Xiaoping's successor, Zhao Ziyang was purged for his sympathetic stance toward the student demonstrators in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and spent the last fifteen years of his life under house arrest.
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