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...Setting the Record Straight One is Left Our Milestone on the death of radical Maoist Zhang Chunqiao [May 23] said in error that he was "the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four." There is still one remaining member, Yao Wenyuan, who is living in Shanghai...
...DIED. ZHANG CHUNQIAO, 88, the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; on April 21, in an undisclosed location. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," Zhang, his trusted propagandist and deputy, led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and jailing of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were arrested...
DIED. ZHANG CHUNQIAO, 88, the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; of cancer; in an undisclosed location, although he lived in Shanghai. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," his trusted propagandist and deputy led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and imprisonment of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were...
...journalists last August that "she persists in behaving as a political and ideological enemy of our people." Yet when Jiang's reprieve expired last week, China's Supreme People's Court commuted her sentence to life in prison. Her apparently impenitent coconspirator, former Vice Premier Zhang Chunqiao, 65, received a similar reprieve. The court's somewhat lame explanation: the criminals had not "resisted reform in a flagrant...
Jiang and former Shanghai Mayor Zhang Chunqiao, 63, were named the chief culprits of the Gang of Four. They were the only defendants to receive suspended death sentences. The official reason given for their two-year grace period was to allow the condemned prisoners "to reform through labor." In fact, while their reprieve is theoretically only two years, Jiang and Zhang will almost surely never be shot...