Word: qing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Execution of the Gang of Four would cause little uproar in China. Few would rue the demise of the group's leader, Jiang Qing, 66, a once sexy, grade-B movie actress from Shanghai, who in 1937 crossed the country to the Communist revolutionary base in northwest China and promptly captured the heart of the young guerrilla leader Mao Tse-tung. Mao's live-in arrangement with her-which apparently ended a few years before his death in 1976 -was tolerated by his comrades on the condition that he keep his new commonlaw wife away from politics...
...Jiang Qing assumed power with the assistance of her three fellow gang members: Yao Wenyuan, 56, a literary critic whose extremist articles in the Shanghai daily Wen Hui inaugurated the Cultural Revolution; Wang Hongwen, 43, a party secretary in a Shanghai cotton mill, who in 1973 was elevated by Mao to the third highest post in the Communist hierarchy; and Zhang Chunqiao, 69, who helped Jiang Qing purge almost the entire cultural establishment of China. The four instituted a reign of terror during which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide...
According to the article "The Decline of Editing" [Sept. 1], "The fight against the misuse of 'hopefully' (for 'I hope') is just about lost." In your review of the Peking opera [Aug. 25], the wife of Mao Tse-tung, Jiang Qing, is mentioned in this way: "Thankfully, Jiang herself has now fallen out of favor." Does this mean that Jiang is thankful that she fell out of favor, or does it mean that the fight against the misuse of "thankfully" is just about lost...
Considering the outrages it suffered during the Cultural Revolution, the fact that the Peking company exists at all is a kind of miracle. Mao Tse-tung's wife, the arrogant and mischievous Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing), barred all classical productions as antirevolutionary, and a major artist like the enchanting Zhao Yanxia had to spend five years planting wheat in the provinces. Thankfully, Jiang herself has now fallen out of favor, and Zhao and her colleagues can now delight Americans, as they and their predecessors have been thrilling the Chinese for generations...
...more gloomy than most in a society that is generally hopeful about the future. Nonetheless it reflects the uneasiness of many Chinese these days. The country has gone far beyond the first euphoria of its "second liberation," when the radical Gang of Four, including Mao's widow Jiang Qing, was toppled from power and the new leaders embarked on pragmatic policies. By now, some relaxed features of life are taken for granted: the return of romantic drama to TV, glossy billboards advertising Coca-Cola and Sanyo tape recorders, and at least a superficial measure of personal ease that came...