A group of Communist Party activists led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, that acted under Mao's authority. The four were largely responsible for propelling the Cultural Revolution, and the country ...

1976 — Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four are arrested in a bloodless revolt led by military commanders working with Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution.

voiced their strong opposition to the "cultural revolution", calling it a "mistake". They criticized activities by the clique of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing such as purging veteran officials and ...

the Cultural Revolution was a great success. Insubordinate Party higher-ups were replaced by his allies, particularly the so-called Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing. Could it have been ...

Zhang was the most intellectually rigorous member of the Gang of Four, the group that directed much of the Cultural Revolution. Led by Jiang Qing, the wife of Communist Party founder Mao Zedong ...

On September 24, 1970, the Rolling Stones interrupted their concert at the Palais des Sports in Paris to invite a French Maoist called Serge July onstage. News of an earthshaking event called the ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the ... who helped define the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Shanghai Dolls explores the ...

Textbooks explain the Cultural Revolution – in which hundreds of ... Slowly I began to hate Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, who was a key leader of the Revolution, and I bowed grudgingly when my ...

Chinese people aged over 50 experienced the Cultural Revolution first hand ... the arrest of his widow Jiang Qing and the other members of the "Gang of Four", would "save the Party and the ...

1976 — Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four are arrested in a bloodless revolt led by military commanders working with Mao’s successor, Hua Guofeng, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution.