Word: qing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final week and a half of the trial had been devoted exclusively to the star defendant, Jiang Qing, 67, the fearsome Mme. Mao. Proud, defiant, nearly regal in her contempt when the trial opened almost seven weeks ago, the onetime actress turned its final hours into a dramatic shouting match. Presiding Judge Zeng Hanzhou interrupted her concluding remarks on the grounds that she was using her right to speak to "smear and vilify party and state leaders," which, he said, was a "counterrevolutionary" offense...
...strangely appropriate end to the often disorderly trial of Jiang Qing and nine other former high-ranking officials. The court is now to deliberate over the evidence accumulated during the 27 days of hearings and then issue its verdicts, probably some time this month. There is no question that all the defendants-eight of whom have obediently accepted most of the charges against them-will be found guilty. There is even a possibility that one or two will be executed. Still, Jiang Qing succeeded in raising some serious questions about the validity of the case against...
...strangest aspects about the article was that, paradoxically, it seemed to provide the prime defendant in the trial of the Gang of Four, Jiang Qing, with ammunition for her defense. Ever since the trial opened in late November, Jiang has claimed that her actions could not be criminal since they had the approval not only of Mao but also of esteemed Premier Chou Enlai...
...next day Jiang Qing began the so-called debate phase of the trial-already completed for all the other nine defendants-in which the unrepentant Madame Mao began to defend herself. According to Chinese observers at the trial, Jiang Qing delivered an impassioned defense of the Cultural Revolution as a correct policy, approved by both Mao and Chou. Jiang claimed that Chou even sanctioned the attack on former Head of State Liu Shaoqi, which is held now to be one of the Gang of Four's gravest crimes. Then she defiantly challenged the court to execute her publicly...
...theory, argue the innocence of the accused. Since most of the defendants have already admitted their "counterrevolutionary crimes," the lawyers' role had been reduced to pointing out the defendants' contrite attitude and asking for lenient sentences. The main exception to that pattern is likely to be Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, who in her last court appearance was hustled from the chamber after she angrily attacked both a witness and a judge as "liars" and "traitors." When it comes her turn to make her defense, possibly this week, Jiang Qing is almost certain to make a highly...