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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demons and Goblins. For the first time, Peking last week identified by name "the Big Four Brigands" and "the Gang of Four" who had been the target of the wall-poster attacks: Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Shanghai Mafia" colleagues, Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen, Vice Premier Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan. The New China News Agency announced that the Party Central Committee, headed by Hua, had "adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party." Despite those...
Chiang Ch'ing herself was accused on wall posters of trying to murder Mao. Some said she had "nagged" him to death; others claimed she "ignored the doctor's advice and wanted to move [Mao] from his sickbed, trying in vain to kill him." The deputy political commissar of Canton also denounced "the self-styled student of our leader"-a reference to the fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow...
...another, there are signs that the public at large has tired of the radicals' wearisome attempts to politicize every aspect of life in endless meetings and parades. Chiang Ch'ing was so unpopular, reported one Japanese correspondent from Peking last week, that "contemptuous laughter used to break out in the darkness of movie theaters whenever she appeared on the screen." For the past few months, there have been growing signs of a low morale in the country, of a yearning for stability and a better standard of living. Worse, there have been numerous reports of widespread lawlessness...
...people, angered by the removal of memorial wreaths to Chou Enlai, demonstrated in Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square against radical policies. The T'ien An Men rioters bloodied several radical university students and waved placards that allegorically assailed Chiang Ch'ing. They also carried slogans reading, GONE FOR GOOD is CH'IN SHIH HUANG'S FEUDAL SOCIETY, an allusion to the first Chinese Emperor (3rd century B.C.), a great but ruthless dynasty builder with whom Mao has been commonly identified...
...then be chosen to go to a university. The result of this, complained moderate Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, since purged, was that students would be leaving the university "without being able to read if the present system continues much longer." The deposed Deputy Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared before being purged himself that "university students are below the standard of technical middle-school students of earlier times, in both politics and knowledge...