Meng new Culture Minister
NZPA-AFP Peking Wang Meng, a writer once persecuted as a “Rightist” under Mao Tsetung, had been named China’s new Culture Minister.
Meng, aged 51, considered a moderate supporting the cultural policies of China’s present Administration headed by Deng Xiaoping, replaced Zhu Muzhi, aged 70, in the post,said a Culture Ministry spokesman. The Culture Minister’s task is a very sensitive one in China, where art and literature are linked closely to politics. The Minister must tread a fine line between satisfying artists’ desire for a free environment and Chinese Communist Party demands that their work serve the proper objectives, analysts said.
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