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Communist Party of China

57 people

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GlossaryCommunist Party of China

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
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–

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