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...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...
...When it comes to monstrous crimes, the author knows his subject. His 1996 book Hungry Ghosts is the definitive account of China's 1958-62 famine, which killed some 30 million. For that work, Becker traveled through the heart of China, talking with peasants who recalled Mao's disastrous social engineering project, the Great Leap Forward. His research exposed a calamity that had been largely hidden from the world...
...Although I care about international and domestic affairs and actively participate in Communist Party activities, I study other things in a passive way. In my leisure time ... I rarely study Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents." ?For a student...
...presidency, hadn't been on the mainland since he left with his family at the age of 10 in 1946. The meeting inevitably kindled memories of the last time the KMT and the Communist Party joined forces?in 1937 to fight the Japanese?and the 1945 meeting in which Mao Zedong and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reached a shaky agreement, which collapsed into the final four years of civil war that forced the KMT to Taiwan...