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SCK 1/2/4841/66
RR Garside Esq PEKING
CHENG-MING
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7 November, 1978.
HKK 020/1.
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14/11
I commend to you the latest, November, issue of Cheng-ming, the local Party-backed journal. It is a bumper issue to celebrate the journal's first anniversary and contains some articles which I found fascinating.
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I will not give a detailed account since you vill wish to read it yourself and, in any case, I have only looked through it very hurriedly. Nevertheless, I suggest you look out for the following articles.
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"The strange silence of Red Flag". This discusses the absence of a joint editorial on 1 October and the different lines being taken by ked Flag and People's Daily over the last few months. Much of it is very much on the lines of the assessment made by Mr Yi of the Press Research Unit in his report No. 101 of 12 October.
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"llow should Liu Shao-ch'i be regarded". article says that most people in Peking now feel that the mistakes made by Liu Shao-ch'i were not that serious and that the question now is not whether he made mistakes but how they should most appropriately be dealt with. It also says that Hang Kuang-mei vas rehabilitated in 1976 and that she and her children are now being given "relatively good" treatment. She is apparently a near neighbour of yours, living at Chien-kuo men-vai.
"The present situation of Chiang Ching and Ch'iao Kuan-hua". This is not serious political stuff but is interesting nevertheless. It points out that there seems to be no evidence of Ch'iao's organisational links with the Gang of Four and that he is therefore only under house arrest (in shih- chia hu-t'ung, next door to where Hua used to live)
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