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...what had up to now been the most extraordinary political happening in China's recent past. In April 1976, throngs had congregated there to protest the removal of wreaths left at Martyrs' Monument in honor of the late Premier Monument in honor of the late Premier Chou Enlai, who had rehabilitated Teng from the disgrace he suffered during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The gathering soon ignited into violence, and hundreds of demonstrators were beaten and jailed. In the wake of the event, Mao had personally purged Teng, whom he blamed for the pro-Chou...
...repression. If the poster campaign was not calculated to push forward Teng's ambitions, what then was its purpose? One answer from Sinologists was that this calculated political performance was inspired by Teng to show both the Chinese and the Western world that the outpourings of grief over Chou's death were revolutionary acts. After some of the wall posters called for an ex post facto justification of the T'ien An Men rally, Teng announced that the 1976 demonstration had indeed been sanctified by the Central Committee. Teng was quoted as saying: "It may be called...
...event occurred on April 5, 1976, three months after the death of Premier Chou Enlai. The populace of Peking discovered that the flowers they had placed in Chou's honor at the Martyrs' Monument in T'ien An Men Square had been removed. In protest, tens of thousands of citizens marched on the square, but were repulsed by militiamen. The incident erupted into the most remarkable public demonstration in Peking in 30 years: before it ended, angry marchers had set fire to automobiles and a nearby building. Countless protesters were bloodied and hustled off to jail...
...example, the Peking daily Kwangming Jih Pao published an article arguing that a well-known polemic launching the Cultural Revolution-clearly inspired by Mao, if not written by him-was "counterrevolutionary" and a "signal to practice fascist dictatorship." Meanwhile, the memory of Teng's protector, pragmatic Premier Chou Enlai, is increasingly honored, and something of a cult of personality seems to be developing about Teng himself...
Even after Premier Chou En-lai had helped to reinstate Teng, making him a Deputy Premier in 1973, Wu was among the officials who continued to oppose him. In 1976, when Teng was deposed a second time, for supposedly having fomented riots in Peking's T'ien An Men Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor...