Meaning of Chungnanhai | Babel Free

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“March 8, 1952, International Working Women’s Day, was an unforgettable day for me. We, the first women fliers of new China, flew in formation over Tien An Men to be reviewed by the Chinese people’s great leader Chairman Mao. Later he received us in Chungnanhai and posed for a picture with us.”

“Shincho said words were intercepted that Chiang Ching was asking these four men, one at a time, to meet her at the guest house for foreign visitors in Peiping’s Chungnanhai (South Central Sea) district where Mao lives.”

“Before leaving we were received by Premier Chou in Chungnanhai, the Central People’s Government offices.[...] IN SUMMER 1957 at the beginning of the anti-Rightist campaign the Premier called a meeting with people in literature and art, again in Chungnanhai.”

“Liu’s person and his public meaning became completely estranged: the former was cut off from the instruments of policy and sequestered in his official residence at Chungnanhai, but the other “Liu” became the animating spirit of opposition against which the GPCR was waged, and indeed proved so dauntless and resourceful an opponent that he could be vanquished only after two years of fierce “struggle.””

“Here Mao Tse-tung (right) meets Kissinger in Chungnanhai, China, 17 February 1973; Chinese Premier Chou En-lai is in the background.”

“In the manner of dictators, Mao suddenly summoned the two Americans to his private residence in the sequestered Chungnanhai compound next to the Forbidden City.”

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