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Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates
China to celebrate day Tibet feudal rule ended
BEIJING - Ahead of the politically sensitive 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight into exile and the crushing of a Tibetan rebellion, China has told Tibet to celebrate the event as a liberation from feudalism.
Nations:India People:Dalai Lama Zhou Enlai Activities:Tibet Issues Source:(AP)
2009-01-18
Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China, dies
BEIJING - Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state-run media reported.
People:Hua Guofeng Deng Xiaoping Zhao Ziyang Zhou Enlai Activities:China Cultural Revolution Source:(AP)
2008-08-20
Longtime AP correspondent Roderick dies
John Roderick, an Associated Press correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders while living with them in their cave headquarters in the mid-1940s, has died. He was 93.
Nations:China Japan U.S. Israel U.K. Greece People:John Roderick Zhou Enlai Hillary Clinton Mao Zedong Activities:China-U.S.
2008-03-11
China hotel's closed doors hide Party intrigue
China's Communist Party cadres gathering this week for a Congress to name a new generation of leaders are staging their most important meetings in secret in a place with a long history of keeping ordinary people out.
People:Zhou Enlai Activities:2007 CCP 17th Congress
2007-10-16
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