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The McGill International Review
March 26, 2018
Chairman Mao passed in September of 1976, and following a lacklustre and short-lived continuation of his regime by Chairman Hua Guofeng, China was ushered into a new era of economic and political change. This era was spearheaded by Deng Xiaoping, who had experienced first hand the excesses ofÃÂ ...
TODAYonline
March 14, 2018
The story of Hua Guofeng may be instructive. After succeeding Mao in 1976, Hua took on the title of party chairman (a title not in use since), military chief and state premier. He lasted two years. Mr Xi is not Hua. He is far more powerful. But in the murky world of elite Chinese politics, the faux security blanketÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 8, 2018
Chinese Chairman Hua Guofeng had announced plans for a big leap in China's national production in the coming eight years. The plan intended to achieve annual growth rates of 4 to 5 per cent in agriculture and 10 per cent or more in industry. ○ A 79-year-old Hong Kong woman was reunited with herÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
March 6, 2018
Chinese Communist Party chairman and premier, Hua Guofeng has said that relations between India and China can be further improved if serious efforts are made on both sides. The people of India and China wanted improved relations, Hua said in a report on the government's work presented to China'sÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
March 5, 2018
Those term limits—up to two consecutive five-year terms—have endured through the reigns of Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao. Xi knows better than most the turmoil that China went through under Mao and the perils of one-man rule and the signs of a determination to hold ontoÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
March 4, 2018
Chinese premier and party chairman, Hua Guofeng, was re-elected premier by the fifth National People's Congress. The party vice-chairman and defence minister, Marshal Ye Jianying, was elected chairman of the Congress, the source said. Marshal Ye, 80, was vice-chairman of the Fourth People'sÃÂ ...
Taiwan News
March 1, 2018
Initially, the proposal met with a neutral approach, with nobody daring to oppose or support it, apart from Deng, who used it against his rival, Hua Guofeng (華國鋒), but then forgot all about it once he was in charge, Bao said. Deng said a precedent by saying one thing and doing another, Zhao's formerÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
February 28, 2018
Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng reaffirmed the foreign policy set by Chairman Mao Zedong and said that China would continue its struggle against the superpowers, especially “Soviet social-imperialism”. In his National People's Congress report, Hua stressed that China must be “united with allÃÂ ...
Japan Today
February 28, 2018
When Deng Xiaoping emerged from the succession struggle that arose after Mao's death – eventually outmaneuvering Mao's handpicked successor Hua Guofeng - Deng built a political consensus to support his economic changes that emphasized the need for limits on time in office, as well as what hasÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
February 28, 2018
The propaganda machine has resurrected the term “lingxiu,” a Chinese word for leader that was once used for Mao (and his successor Hua Guofeng) and has been discredited as a result. And, perhaps most significant, “Xi Jinping Thought” has been incorporated into the CCP constitution, a move thatÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
February 26, 2018
China's first three leaders after the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 all carried the title party chairman — Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng and then Hu Yaobang. It has not been used since. "Argh, we're going to become North Korea". "Argh, we're going to become North Korea". "Whether Xi ends upÃÂ ...
Prospect
December 23, 2017
In the weeks following the 19th Party Congress in Beijing in October, Party Secretary Xi Jinping was anointed as lingxiu, a term not used for any living leader since Mao and his short lived successor Hua Guofeng. Xi's ideological “thought” has been embedded in the Party's constitution as its guiding light,ÃÂ ...
Free Malaysia Today
October 30, 2017
The term “lingxiu” has more reverential and spiritual connotations than the ordinary term for leader, and has not been used since the time of Mao's successor Hua Guofeng. But it has begun to pop up again in state media and in government meetings. After the 19th party congress ended last Tuesday, Xi wasÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
October 30, 2017
Hu is becoming reminiscent of a figure who was overwhelmed by other more dominating histories from a few decades back – Hua Guofeng. Despite being Mao Zedong's final chosen successor, Hua simply got shuffled aside and then forgotten during the great Deng Xiaoping comeback after 1978.
Asharq Al-awsat English
October 26, 2017
He wants to be something more than his predecessors Hu Jintao, Hu Yaobang, Li Xiannian and Hua Guofeng were. Xi's ambition is to surpass even Deng Xiaoping, the “strongman” who, many believe, made the new China possible. President Xi may not be able to aspire to the status that Mao Zedong, theÃÂ ...
The Australian
October 20, 2017
Even the most powerful Chinese leaders have not been able to secure their preferred successor in office, for example. Chairman Mao Zedong lost one supposed successor, Lin Biao, and could not push the claims of his wife, Jiang Qing. His ultimate replacement, Hua Guofeng, was brushed aside by DengÃÂ ...
NPR
October 17, 2017
Three of Mao Zedong's anointed heirs, Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao and Hua Guofeng, were purged or sidelined. Liu was purged and persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in 1969. Lin died in a 1971 plane crash, after an alleged failed coup attempt. Hua served as party chairman for five years untilÃÂ ...
TIME
October 15, 2017
That honorific has been bestowed only on two others since the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China: Mao and his short-lived successor, Hua Guofeng. Using the term over the congress could set him up to be named party chairman, a title that has not been used since Hu Yaobang, who died inÃÂ ...
SupChina
June 2, 2017
Hua Guofeng, the former CCP chairman drop-kicked into retirement by Deng Xiaoping, ended his life in relative political obscurity. For him, then, there was no superlative up front — he was just (poor Hua) a “proletarian revolutionary and politician,” plain and simple. The terms “outstanding proletarianÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
October 6, 2016
Forty years ago, on this day October 7, the world heard the news that Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong's designated successor, had formally assumed the post of chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, making him the top leader in China. However, what was not known to the world until a week later was theÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 20, 2008
The radicals seemed to be on the ropes. But the Gang impressed upon a nervous Hua Guofeng the dangerous nature of the events unfolding in Tiananmen Square and, on a smaller scale, in other major cities. They also managed to convince Mao that counter-revolutionaries, led by Deng, were at work.
AllAfrica.com
November 19, 2017
Mao's choice and his eventual successor was the previously little-known but reform-minded Hua Guofeng who ordered the arrest of Jiang Qing and the other members of her cabal. Similar to events which unfolded this week, Grace's allies such as Finance minister Ignatius Chombo were arrested as the ...
onmanorama
November 18, 2017
A century since her birth, Indira Gandhi, the iron-fisted prime minister of India, stands tall, even amid the chaotic political juncture that the young Indian democracy still is. April 1971 was a decisive month in India's contemporary history. Indira Gandhi had just returned to power with a thumping majority.
Naija247news
November 17, 2017
After they were foiled and arrested, Hua Guofeng, a transition figure, was billed by government propagandists as Mao's true ideological heir to explain why his very visible widow was now completely out of the picture. Deng Xiaoping, the real mastermind of Jiang's overthrow, eventually took over the actual ...
Zimbabwe Independent
November 17, 2017
Mao's choice and his eventual successor was the previously little-known but reform-minded Hua Guofeng who ordered the arrest of Jiang Qing and the other members of her cabal. Similar to events which unfolded this week, Grace's allies such as Finance minister Ignatius Chombo were arrested as the ...
The Hindu
November 1, 2017
The term “lingxiu” has not been used since the time of Mao's successor Hua Guofeng. But it has begun to pop up again in state media and in ...
Free Malaysia Today
October 30, 2017
... and spiritual connotations than the ordinary term for leader, and has not been used since the time of Mao's successor Hua Guofeng.
South China Morning Post
October 30, 2017
... honorific bestowed only on “great lingxiu” Mao, the founder of communist China, and his short-lived successor, “wise lingxiu” Hua Guofeng.
The Diplomat
October 30, 2017
Hu is becoming reminiscent of a figure who was overwhelmed by other more dominating histories from a few decades back – Hua Guofeng.
Asharq Al-awsat English
October 26, 2017
He wants to be something more than his predecessors Hu Jintao, Hu Yaobang, Li Xiannian and Hua Guofeng were. Xi's ambition is to surpass even Deng Xiaoping, the “strongman” who, many believe, made the new China possible. President Xi may not be able to aspire to the status that Mao Zedong, the ...
New York Times
October 23, 2017
But when Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng, repeated that dictum, he sealed his fate. Deng Xiaoping and his fellow survivors did not want ...
South China Morning Post
October 22, 2017
... grander air” than the more widely used word “lingdao”, has only been bestowed on one leader since Mao: his successor Hua Guofeng – the ...
Express.co.uk
October 18, 2017
The title was used by Mao Zedong, as well as briefly by his short-lived successor Hua Guofeng. The crowning of a leader has only been used in ...
TIME
October 15, 2017
... bestowed only on two others since the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China: Mao and his short-lived successor, Hua Guofeng.
China Economic Review
December 31, 1999
Here for the record is the full list of party leaders since 1949: Mao, Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Zhou Ziyang, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi.
TODAYonline
September 27, 2017
Hua Guofeng, the leader who succeeded Mao but was quickly outflanked by Deng, is not reflected in the party's charter. The notion that “XiÃÂ ...
USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)
September 3, 2017
Gewirtz shows that the primary goal of China as led by Hua Guofeng after Mao's death was to promote economic development. Since practiceÃÂ ...
Billionaire BLLNR | Singapore (registration)
September 1, 2017
Hua Guofeng, chief of the Hunan Provincial Revolutionary Committee, fully affirmed the staged results scored by our tentative exploration,ÃÂ ...
derStandard.at
August 19, 2017
... Jahrzehnt der "Kulturrevolution" besiegelt: Mao-Nachfolger Hua Guofeng wird zum Parteichef, Marschall Ye Jianying und Deng Xiaoping zuÃÂ ...
Asia Sentinel
July 31, 2017
In a recent guide to the 19th Party Congress, Trivium China described Li as the weakest premier since Hua Guofeng (1976-1980), MaoÃÂ ...
MediaFile
July 31, 2017
The factory walls were plastered with posters celebrating Mao and the new party chairman, Hua Guofeng, and pledging redoubled efforts toÃÂ ...
Nikkei Asian Review
July 26, 2017
A transitional figure, Hua Guofeng was installed as the "wise leader" but pushed out of power two years later by a coalition led by the newlyÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 24, 2017
Berlin's last panda, Bao Bao, was sent in 1980 as a gift from Hua Guofeng, the Chinese leader at the time, to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ofÃÂ ...
SupChina
June 2, 2017
In other cases, as with the death of former premier Hua Guofeng (华国锋) in 2008, and PLA general Liu Huaqing (刘华清) in 2011, Xinhua canÃÂ ...
Guardian
March 20, 2017
After the death of Mao Zedong in September 1976, China faced a critical choice. Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng, decided to maintainÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
January 30, 2017
New evidence shows Mao Zedong's initial successor, a man named Hua Guofeng, actually did embody a spirit of consensus and collectiveÃÂ ...
EJ Insight
October 20, 2016
In the meantime, they are also publicly attacking former premier Hua Guofeng, Marshal Ye and Wang Dongxing, former director of the generalÃÂ ...
Lima Charlie News
December 31, 1999
Mao was succeeded by Hua Guofeng who attempted to keep a tight control over the power structures of China, including the Central MilitaryÃÂ ...
International Politics and Society
December 31, 1999
When Hua Guofeng – Mao Zedong's designated successor – arranged the arrest of the Gang of Four (a political faction) shortly after theÃÂ ...
Blooloop
March 7, 2017
Berlin's Previous Panda Superstar. Berlin Zoo has been celebrated for its pandas in the past. Bao Bao, the world's most long lived panda, was a gift to former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt from the then Chinese leader, Hua Guofeng, in November 1980.
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