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...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 ominous words, most Sinologists believe that the four radicals had only been purged...
...Yao Wenyuan, the brilliant, acerbic essayist and literary critic who, while a Politburo member and a party secretary in Shanghai, had been running the country's propaganda machinery...
Unrivaled Adroitness. By contrast, the radical leaders got only one ministerial post: Opera Composer Yu Hui-yung (Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy) was named Minister of Culture. None of the leading members of the leftist faction, like Mao's flamboyant wife Chiang Ching or her ally Yao Wenyuan, moved upward in either the government or the party...
...moving to enlarge his power. Last year, when his program of pragmatic economic policies and his rehabilitation of formerly disgraced bureaucrats came under radical assault, he once again assumed a low profile. The ideological campaign to discredit Confucius and Lin Piao was used by radicals like Chiang Ching and Yao Wenyuan to attack the Premier, obliquely but unmistakably. Among other things, the campaign implicitly sliced at Chou by accusing Confucius of having "called to office those who had retired to obscurity," an allusion to Chou's rehabilitation of Teng Hsiao-ping the year before...
...seen together since the current Politburo was formed 13 months ago. Equally important, some 60 officials whose names had not been mentioned in public since the great purges of the Cultural Revolution took their place alongside such radical firebrands as Madame Mao and her close associate in the Politburo, Yao Wenyuan...