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Background: China

72 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Wei Guoqing 韦国清 Zhuang general sent in 1950 to head the Chinese Military Advisory Group to the Viet Minh, who also attended the Geneva conference Military command · People’s Republic of China 1913–1989
Xi Zhongxun 习仲勋 A founder of the northern Shaanxi base, purged for sixteen years, who opened Guangdong’s special economic zones Government and administration · People’s Republic of China 1913–2002
Jiang Qing 江青 From the Shanghai stage to the pinnacle of the Cultural Revolution: Mao's wife who led the Gang of Four and remade Chinese revolutionary art Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1914–1991
Chen Yonggui 陈永贵 The peasant leader of the model village behind “In agriculture, learn from Dazhai”, who rose to vice-premier Agriculture and land policy · People’s Republic of China 1915–1986
Hu Yaobang 胡耀邦 The reformist general secretary who rehabilitated the Cultural Revolution’s victims and freed thought; his death sparked the 1989 protests Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China 1915–1989
Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee Boggs From first translator of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts to philosopher of Detroit's revolution Social movements and organizing 1915–2015
Wan Li 万里 “If you want rice, look for Wan Li” — the reform pioneer who let Anhui’s peasants contract land to households Agriculture and land policy · People’s Republic of China 1916–2015
Wang Dongxing 汪东兴 Mao’s bodyguard chief whose Zhongnanhai Unit 8341 arrested the Gang of Four, then pushed aside for the “two whatevers” Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China 1916–2015
Zhang Chunqiao 张春桥 Theoretician of the Gang of Four who organized the Shanghai People's Commune and championed all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1917–2005
Zhao Ziyang 赵紫阳 From Sichuan’s farm reforms to general secretary, the reformer who opposed martial law in 1989 and died under house arrest Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China 1919–2005
Hua Guofeng 华国锋 Mao’s designated successor — “With you in charge, I am at ease” — who arrested the Gang of Four and was eased out by Deng Xiaoping Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China 1921–2008
Kuan Yew Lee 李光耀 Singapore’s founding prime minister, who led the city-state through independence and its early development Government and administration 1923–2015
Jiang Zemin 江泽民 The “core” plucked from Shanghai in 1989 who led post-Tiananmen China into the market economy and the “Three Represents” Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China 1926–2022
Li Peng 李鹏 The premier who declared martial law in May 1989, called “the butcher of Beijing”; Zhou Enlai’s ward Government and administration · People’s Republic of China 1928–2019
Yao Wenyuan 姚文元 The Gang of Four’s theorist whose attack on Hai Rui Dismissed from Office opened the Cultural Revolution; the critic nicknamed “the cudgel” Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1931–2005
Wang Hongwen 王洪文 The Shanghai worker-rebel who rose “like a helicopter” to party vice-chairman, youngest of the Gang of Four Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China 1935–1992
Fang Lizhi 方励之 “China’s Sakharov”, the astrophysicist known for the 1986 student protests and his 1989 refuge in the US embassy Science and technology · Communist Party of China 1936–2012
Yang Jisheng 杨继绳 The Xinhua reporter who lost his father to the famine and, in Tombstone, documented 36 million Great Famine deaths Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of China 1940–
Shen Zhihua 沈志华 A historian who reread Sino-Soviet relations through Cold War archives Scholarship and theory 1950–
Wei Jingsheng 魏京生 The electrician who pasted “The Fifth Modernisation” on Democracy Wall, deported after eighteen years in prison Social movements and organizing 1950–
Gao Hua 高华 Nanjing University historian whose How the Red Sun Rose dissected the Yan’an rectification movement Scholarship and theory 1954–2011
Nancy Qian Nancy Qian An economist who traces state policy through historical data Scholarship and theory 1975–

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