From: xiong@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Bo Xiong)
Subject: [News] Another Hard-Liner, Hu Qiaomu, Died at 81 Monday
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:12:39 GMT

The following is carried in Sept 29's CND-Global:
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3. Another Hard-Liner, Hu Qiaomu, Died at 81 Monday .....................43
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From: Charles Mok
Source: UPI, 9/28/92

BEIJING -- Hu Qiaomu, a Marxist ideologue and Communist Party elder who was
one of China's most tenacious hard-line leaders, died Monday of illness at
age 81, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

A member of the ruling Standing Committee of the party's Central Advisory
Commission, he died two weeks before the party opens an important national
congress, at which Deng is reportedly pushing to enshrine his reforms and
open-door policy and eclipse other orthodox leaders who have resisted
swifter and broader changes.  The Xinhua report said Hu died of illness at
7:16 a.m. Beijing time.  It gave no further details.

The brief dispatch quoted a statement from the party Central Committee that
called Hu an "outstanding Marxist theorist, political commentator, social
scientist and an outstanding leader in China's ideological, theoretical,
cultural and propaganda fields."

Hu was the fourth major conservative leader to die this year, following the
deaths of former President Li Xiannian and party elders Deng Yingchao and
Wang Renzhong.

One of the country's most prominent theorists on Marxism, Hu served on the
party Politburo between 1982 and 1987, when he was pushed aside along with
many other conservatives in favor of more reform-minded officials.

But he regained some prominence after Deng Xiaoping turned to his sometimes
hard-line rivals for support following the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Hu continued to author conservative-tinged commentaries on hewing to
communism until this year.

Born in Jiangsu Province, Hu was a young communist agitator and joined the
party in 1932, playing a leading role in organizing students against the
Japanese occupation in the 1930s.

He served in a variety of party positions and became personal secretary to
Mao Tse-tung in the early 1940s, later serving in theoretical and propaganda
positions.

After the 1949 communist revolution, he held ideological and research posts
and emerged as one of the party's key theorists. He was named president of
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977 following the Cultural
Revolution.

Hu continued to wield significant conservative influence over party thinking
into the 1980s, serving in party posts until he rose to the Politburo.

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