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Word: guangmei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...witnesses against her was Xiao Meng, head of an investigating team that Jiang assigned to collect incriminating evidence against Liu's wife Wang Guangmei. Dissatisfied with Xiao's initial report that Wang was an American spy Jiang not only threw him into jail for five years but ordered up a second report charging that Wang was at once an agent for the U.S., Japan and Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Defiant Widow in the Dock | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...heinous crimes that took place during the Cultural Revolution. The charges specify that 727,420 Chinese were "persecuted" during that period, and that 34,274 died, though the often vague indictment did not specify exactly how. Among the chief victims: onetime Chief of State Liu Shaoqi, whose widow Wang Guangmei, herself imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, attended the trial as an observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Gang of Four on Trial | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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