Word: zhou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capitalist countries, but the initial succession to Chairman Mao Zedong was accomplished without a major military struggle. Mao, who had attended the founding of the Chinese Communist Party of 1921 and who became the Chinese Communists; supreme leader in 1935, died in September 1976, only a few months after Zhou Enlai. The opening to the West had been legitimized while Mao was still alive as "the revolutionary line of chairman Mao," but after his death a brief struggle broke out between his widow and three of her more radical cohorts ("the gang of four") on the one hand...