Word: chunqiao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...then alternately smirked and yawned during the reading of the indictment, apparently to show contempt for the proceedings. Still, there were some reports that at one point she broke down and cried. Other defendants seemed tired and worn from their long imprisonment. Two members of the Gang, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, had shaved heads. Two other defendants, including Chen Boda, 76, who had been Mao's personal secretary and a theoretician of the Cultural Revolution, had to be helped to their places before the bar by two guards...
...three others: former Politburo members Zhang Chunqiao, 63; Yao Wenyuan, 49; and Wang Hongwen...
Some speculation inevitably focused on the radical Gang of Four. Gang Leader Jiang Qing, Mao Tse-tung's onetime companion, and her accomplices from Shanghai (municipal Party Official Zhang Chunqiao, Literary Critic Yao Wenyuan and cotton-mill Party Functionary Wang Hongwen) assumed power in the mid-1960s and instituted a reign of terror in which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide. Though the gang members were arrested and dis graced four years ago, the announcement that they would go on trial for then-crimes came only last month...