Wang Guangmei: Difference between revisions

After Liu became president in 1959, Wang became a very visible diplomatic companion to him. Wang Guangmei became once widely known in China as its beautiful, articulate, sophisticated first lady.<ref name="sydney">{{cite web |title=Painful life of China's glamorous first lady |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/painful-life-of-chinas-glamorous-first-lady-20061023-gdonno.html |website=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |accessdate=28 May 2020 |date=23 October 2006}}</ref> In the early 1960s, the couple traveled abroad on state visits to [[Kingdom of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]], [[Burmese Way to Socialism|Burma]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Indonesia]]. In 1963, she joined a work team investigating corruption in the countryside, a mounting problem after the [[Great Leap Forward]], Mao's catastrophic development programme of 1958–61, which led to widespread famine. In 1963, she secretly visited [[Funing County]] and summarized the [[Taoyuan Experience]].<ref name="mfv3">{{cite book |last1=MacFarquhar |first1=Roderick |title=The Origins of the Cultural Revolution- 3. The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 |date=1997 |pages=399-402399–402}}</ref>