IN THE FIRST half of 1976, at a time when the Cultural Revolutionary Left exerted a
dominating influence on the central leadership in Peking, the Chinese Communist …

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS during the last year, Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who by the
end of 1975 was effectively exercising administrative control over the People's Republic of …

No observer of the Chinese political scene will argue with a frontpage headline in the New
York Times of June 26, 1966, which said that a “titanic struggle” was taking place in China …

Works) was published on 1 July 1983, the 62nd anniversary of the officially designated date
of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 1 It is undoubtedly the most …

Parris H. Chang he abrupt dsm ssal of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu
Yaobang in January 1987 and the subsequent dr ye against" bourgeois lberalization" have …

THE EVENTS OF this, the 25th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China,
transpired within the framework of a campaign to criticize Confucius and Lin Piao. This …

In the words of Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's successor as Chairman of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP), 1976 was indeed'A most extra-ordinary year* for China. 1 Three of China's …

There is little reason for thinking that the anti-rightist campaign of 1957–58, which closed the
Hundred Flowers interlude, was undertaken in order to overcome an organised opposition …

DURING THE PERIOD from the 3rd Plenum of the 11th Party Congress in December 1978
to the 3rd Session of the 5th National People's Congress (NPC) in September 1980, Deng …

Coming off the convocation of the 15th Party Congress, China started 1998 with reform
moving ahead full steam. This was manifested in a palpable relaxation of the intellectual …