Jiang Qing
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| “ | I am an ordinary Communist, a little pupil of Chairman Mao, and a little pupil of the broad masses. I have to learn from my dear comrades. | „ |
| ~ Jiang Qing |
Jiang Qing (March 5, 1914 - May 14, 1991) was a modern Chinese political figure, actor, literary theorist, photographer, Communist revolutionary and the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.
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Li Jin's real name, li Yunhe, was born in Zhucheng, Shandong, is the fourth wife of Mao Zedong (Mao is her third husband), one of the main leaders of the Communist Party of China during the Cultural Revolution, the head of the "Gang of Four" ". The ninth, the tenth member of the Central Committee, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. When she was young, he was engaged in plays and film; she joined the Communist Party of China in 1933, went to Yan'an in 1938 and then married Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party of China (when he married, Mao Zedong did not go through the divorce process with his wife Zizhen).
During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, Mao Zedong's acquiescence became active in the Chinese political arena, and Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen and Zhang Chunqiao were also called the "Band of the Four".
In September 1976, she entered Mao's room to visit him again. This time she wanted the medical staff to change Mao's sleeping position, claiming he had been lying too long on the left side. Li Zhisui, the chief medical officer objected, explaining that Mao could breathe only in his left lung. Jiang ordered Li to move Mao though. As a result, Mao's breathing stopped and his face turned blue. Jiang Qing left the room while Dr. Li and the rest of the medical staff put Mao on a respirator and performed an emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Mao's death occurred just after midnight at 00:10 on September 9, 1976. Mao's elected successor, Hua Guofeng, became the chairman of his funeral committee. It was believed that Hua was a compromise candidate between free marketeers and the Orthodox party. Some argue that this may have been due to its ambivalence and its discreet profile, particularly compared to Deng Xiaoping, the preferred candidate for market-oriented factions. The party apparatus, under orders from Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao, wrote a compliment that affirms Mao's achievements to justify his demands to power.
At that time the state media were effectively under the control of the Band of Four. State newspapers continued to denounce Deng shortly after Mao's death. Jiang Qing was little worried about Hua Guofeng, but she was very afraid of Deng Xiaoping. In numerous documents published in the 1980s it was stated that Jiang Qing conspired to become the new President of the Communist Party.
The four members of the group were expelled from the Communist Party of China and arrested, accused of plotting a coup d'etat to seize power.7 In 1980, the four were subjected to public trial, accused of various crimes committed in the Cultural Revolution , being that before the courts Jiang Qing's defense was based on the fact that she always carried out orders from her husband. For this, she said: I was Mao's angry dog. Whom he said had to be bitten, I bit him.
Jiang Qing was sentenced to death, although she was eventually commuted to life imprisonment in 1983. In 1991 she was released because of the serious throat cancer that she suffered from. She died shortly after her release from prison. Later, the Chinese government would say that she committed suicide ten days after her release leaving an accusatory note against Deng Xiaoping's policies.