As Chairman Hua Guofeng begins his visit to Western Europe - the first ever, by a Chinese leader - a special edition of Newsweek looks at Mao Zedong's successor.
Using film previously unseen in the West, Felix Greene charts the history of Hua's career, from rural poverty to the leadership of the biggest nation on earth. In his first public interview ever, Chairman Hua talks about his childhood, his part in the war against the Japanese, and how Mao asked him to become his successor.