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Hua Guofeng (/ hw ɑː /; born Su Zhu; 16 February 1921 – 20 August 2008) [1] was a Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the 2nd premier of China.
The 1978 Truth Criterion Controversy (Chinese: 真理标准大讨论; lit. 'Debate on Standards for Judging the Truth'), also known as the 1978 Truth Criterion Discussion, sometimes referred to as the First Great Debate (Chinese: 第一次大争论) in contemporary China, was a sociopolitical debate around 1978, mainly revolving around Hua Guofeng's "Two Whatevers" and Deng Xiaoping's "Reform ...
A primary class displaying Hua's portrait next to Mao's, 1978. Children dancing in a kindergarten, Shanghai, 1978.On the wall, posters of Mao Zedong and Hua Guofeng.. When the founder of the People's Republic of China and first Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, died in 1976 his newly appointed successor, Hua Guofeng, was relatively unknown to the public at the start of his rule.
A poster featuring Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, and the phrase "With you in charge, I'm at ease" in Chinese characters "With you in charge, I'm at ease" (simplified Chinese: 你办事，我放心; traditional Chinese: 你辦事，我放心) [1] is reportedly a phrase written by Chairman Mao Zedong of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a note before his death.
In late 1976 and early 1977, the state propaganda machine was working overtime to promote Hua Guofeng. He was billed as being Mao's personally appointed successor (with paintings produced showing him receiving Mao's final blessings) [ 7 ] and as having saved China from the Gang of Four.
After Zhou's death and Mao's soon thereafter, Hua Guofeng assumed control of the party in 1976. Hua had the leadership of the Cultural Revolution arrested. Known as the Gang of Four, their arrest marked the end of the Cultural Revolution. This event enabled the enactment of the Four Modernizations.
On a 7 February 1977 editorial titled "Study the Documents Well and Grasp the Key Link" [1] which appeared in People's Daily, Red Flag, and People's Liberation Army Daily, Hua articulated the "Two Whatevers" slogan: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao ...
In December 1978, Deng Xiaoping became the new paramount leader of China, replacing Mao's successor Hua Guofeng. Deng and his allies introduced the Boluan Fanzheng program and initiated reforms and opening of China, which, together with the New Enlightenment movement, gradually dismantled the ideology of Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the ...