Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Was his heart at ease with his successors?

Mao's successor Hua Guofeng dies

"Hua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao Zedong as chairman of China's Communist Party, has died, state media is reporting...

"Hua took over as chairman after Mao's death in 1976 and is credited with helping to end the Cultural Revolution.

"But Hua was himself quickly pushed aside by radical reformer Deng Xiaoping. His period as chairman ended formally in 1981.

"However, unlike former leaders who were purged and exiled to remote villages, Hua remained in Beijing and on the party's Central Committee...


[Short biography and posters from Stefan Landsberger's collection]




"Chairman Hua and we are of one heart" 1977



"Chairman Hua shows us the way" 1978

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