By Robert Weatherley
Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, rising virtually out of nowhere following an unexceptional occupation in Shanxi and Hunan. in precisely over years, Hua have been eclipsed by means of Deng Xiaoping, a extra politically sensible, revolutionary and charismatic determine. If Hua's upward thrust to strength used to be striking, then q4 used to be much more so.
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The article asserts that in the winter of 1935, Hua’s stepfather wanted Hua Guofeng to join the CCP and devote himself to the cause of the communist revolution. However, Hua’s mother opposed this idea, encouraged by Hua himself who told ‘his stinky mother’ that it was 24 Mao’s Forgotten Successor more important for him to get an education. The authors do not specify precisely where Hua got this education (possibly in Taiyuan7) but it is claimed that in August 1937 Hua had ‘sex relations’ with a girl from his middle school and was forced to leave the school and return to Jiaocheng.
Another common activity was the concealment of food and water supplies from Japanese troops in an effort to starve them out of a given area or the ambushing of groups of Japanese foot soldiers as they were transporting food and water to enemy The Young Revolutionary 31 troops in a neighbouring village (ZSJW, 1977, p. 1). Numerous acts of sabotage were employed (Lu and Bao, 1978, pp. 18–28). On one occasion, it is reported that a unit of armed workers under Hua’s command crept into the Japanese-occupied mountain village of Zhilan (comprising about 30 households) and threw the rotting carcasses of dead cats and rats into the village well which was the only source of drinking water for Japanese troops.
Perhaps predictably, official sources portray Hua as a moderate figure in the Shanxi land reform process and make no reference to any coercion that he may have been involved in or authorised. Indeed, the People’s Daily suggests in rather embellished tones that Hua was altruistic and considerate, taking the time to collect firewood, herd livestock and carry water for village elders in an effort to win local support for the CCP’s cause (RMRB, 1976a, p. 2). In complete contrast to this, Wang (1980, p.