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...State University of New York at Binghamton, Witke began learning Chinese while an undergraduate at Stanford University. She pursued her study of the history and literature of China in graduate school and was able to use the language well enough to conduct interviews with Chiang Ch'ing in Chinese. Witke made her 1972 trip to investigate the status of women. Her talks with the wife of Chou En-lai spurred Chou to recommend to Chiang Ch'ing that she talk with Witke too. The subsequent interviews ranged from political intrigue and Mme. Mao's version...
...correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...unique set of interviews, Chiang Ch'ing summed up her stormy career as both sex symbol and potentate, movie actress and commissar. The slim, pretty actress from Shanghai who became the wife of Mao Tse-tung tried to turn her marriage to a modern-day emperor into supreme power of her own. She almost succeeded, and for a decade she was one of the world's most powerful women. As the virtual ruler over the culture of 850 million people, she determined what they could see on stage or screen...
Today, at 63, Chiang Ch'ing is no longer a revolutionary heroine; she is constantly attacked as a counterrevolutionary villain. The abrupt transformation came about last October when she was arrested in Peking by the new government of Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. She stands charged with being one of the "Gang of Four," a coterie of top officials whose alleged goal was to seize supreme power for themselves. Together they supposedly forged the deathbed instructions of Mao, incited violence and sabotage throughout the country, and mounted campaigns of slander against anyone who opposed them. Chiang Ch'ing...
Before her fall, Chiang Ch'ing had her chance, in a long series of interviews granted in 1972 to American Sinologist Roxane Witke, to tell her story to the world. Excerpts of that story, prepared exclusively by TIME, appear below...