Comments on: Why Hua Guofeng matters…no, seriously. http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alfred http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-4431 Alfred Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:36:33 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=564#comment-4431 When doing my post-graduate research back in the 70's I came across Hua's name running Mao's Socialist Education Movement in the Countryside - designed to re-educate peasants who'd lost their private plots and had to make do with the points from the Big Brigades 大队everyone was organized into after the failure of the People's Commune's movement. This reaction occured in the period after the Deng-Liu correction in which they disbanded the communes and tried to implement a version of the contract system that Deng implemented in the 80's. As soon as the farmers got their grain yield back up to normal level's Mao attacked them again. Hua had done a particularly good job of the Movement as party secretary in Hunan. I was studying at the Beijing Language Institute (now the Beijing University of Language & Culture) in 1978 when I work up one morning and read in the People's Daily that Premier Li Guangyao had addressed the NPC. I got quite shock and asked my fellow students "What Happened to Premier Hua!". But on reading further I found it was Singaporean Premier Lee Kwan Yu. After the "Great Leader" 伟大的领袖 Mao, and the "Beloved Leader" ‘亲爱的领袖 Zhou, they tried out "Wise Leader" 英明的领袖 Hua, but it didn't stick. Incidently one of the tricks they used to try and make Hua look more 'presidential' was to slick his hair back like Mao's. Hua had always the simple crew cut of the lower level cadre. This tonsorial correctness was even exented to Deng when he was resurrected as well. When doing my post-graduate research back in the 70′s I came across Hua’s name running Mao’s Socialist Education Movement in the Countryside – designed to re-educate peasants who’d lost their private plots and had to make do with the points from the Big Brigades 大队everyone was organized into after the failure of the People’s Commune’s movement.
This reaction occured in the period after the Deng-Liu correction in which they disbanded the communes and tried to implement a version of the contract system that Deng implemented in the 80′s. As soon as the farmers got their grain yield back up to normal level’s Mao attacked them again. Hua had done a particularly good job of the Movement as party secretary in Hunan.
I was studying at the Beijing Language Institute (now the Beijing University of Language & Culture) in 1978 when I work up one morning and read in the People’s Daily that Premier Li Guangyao had addressed the NPC. I got quite shock and asked my fellow students “What Happened to Premier Hua!”. But on reading further I found it was Singaporean Premier Lee Kwan Yu.
After the “Great Leader” 伟大的领袖 Mao, and the “Beloved Leader” ‘亲爱的领袖 Zhou, they tried out “Wise Leader” 英明的领袖 Hua, but it didn’t stick.
Incidently one of the tricks they used to try and make Hua look more ‘presidential’ was to slick his hair back like Mao’s. Hua had always the simple crew cut of the lower level cadre. This tonsorial correctness was even exented to Deng when he was resurrected as well.

]]> By: wu ming http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-3943 wu ming Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:19:22 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=564#comment-3943 wow. i've always enjoyed a chuckle at your hua guofeng posts, but this is really good. it really shows the historical significance of the guy. itching for a diss topic switch? you would be the first guy to do a bio of hua, i'm betting . if not, you might seriously think about expanding this into an article and submitting it. wow. i’ve always enjoyed a chuckle at your hua guofeng posts, but this is really good. it really shows the historical significance of the guy.

itching for a diss topic switch? you would be the first guy to do a bio of hua, i’m betting . if not, you might seriously think about expanding this into an article and submitting it.

]]> By: stefan http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-3864 stefan Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:13:12 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=564#comment-3864 nice obit, Jeremiah! nice obit, Jeremiah!

]]> By: Farewell, Chairman Hua | Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-3858 Farewell, Chairman Hua | Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:51:30 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=564#comment-3858 [...] career, let’s leave that job to the professional. I highly recommend everyone to check out Jeremiah’s excellent writeup at the Granite Studio for insights to Hua’s role in China’s history. Hua’s death last [...] [...] career, let’s leave that job to the professional. I highly recommend everyone to check out Jeremiah’s excellent writeup at the Granite Studio for insights to Hua’s role in China’s history. Hua’s death last [...]

]]> By: billsharedfeed http://granitestudio.org/2008/08/25/why-hua-guofeng-mattersno-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-13052 billsharedfeed Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:19:33 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=564#comment-13052 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Why Hua Guofeng matters…no, seriously.: Shared by Bill good read I wanted to write this last week,.. http://tinyurl.com/6pp75a</span></span> Why Hua Guofeng matters…no, seriously.: Shared by Bill good read I wanted to write this last week,.. http://tinyurl.com/6pp75a

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