biography
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Jiang Qing
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also spelled Chiang Ch'ing
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pronunciation:
[jiang ching]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1914–91)
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| biography:
| Chinese politician, born in Zhucheng, Shandong Province, E China. She studied at Qingdao University, and was an actress in Shanghai when she went to the Chinese Communist Party headquarters at Yenan to study Marxist–Leninist theory (1936), and met the Communist leader, Mao Zedong; she became his third wife in 1939. In the 1960s she began her attacks on bourgeois influences in the arts and literature, and became one of the leaders of the ‘Cultural Revolution’ (1966–76). She was elected to the Politburo (1969), but after Mao's death (1976) was arrested with three others - the ‘Gang of Four’ - imprisoned, expelled from the Communist Party, and tried in 1980 on a charge of subverting the government and wrongly arresting, detaining, and torturing numbers of innocent people. She was sentenced to death, though the sentence was later commuted. |
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