* 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.

Also while in Yan ' an, Mao divorced He Zizhen and married the actress Lan Ping, who would become known as Jiang Qing.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Shanghai became an industrial center and center for radical leftism ; the leftist Jiang Qing and her three cohorts, together the Gang of Four, were based in the city.

* May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of Mao Zedong ( b. 1914 )

While Mao initially praised the play, in February 1965 he secretly commissioned his wife Jiang Qing and Shanghai propagandist Yao Wenyuan to publish an article criticizing it.

However, Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan continued their denunciation of Wu Han and Peng Zhen.

On January 3, 1967, Lin Biao and Jiang Qing employed local media and cadres to generate the so-called " January Storm ", in which many prominent Shanghai municipal government leaders were heavily criticized and purged.

In February, Jiang Qing and Lin Biao, with support from Mao, insisted that the " class struggles " be extended to the military.

This led to a notice to stop all unhealthy activity within the Red Guards from Jiang Qing.

On April 6, 1967, Liu Shaoqi was openly and widely denounced by a Zhongnanhai faction whose members included Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng, and ultimately, Mao himself.

On July 22, Jiang Qing directed the Red Guards to replace the People's Liberation Army if necessary, and thereby to render the existing forces powerless.

After the initial praise by Jiang Qing, the Red Guards began to steal and loot from barracks and other army buildings.

Indeed, a personal dislike of Jiang Qing drew many civilian leaders, including prominent theoretician Chen Boda, closer to Lin Biao.

With Mao's health on the decline, it was clear that Jiang Qing had political ambitions of her own.

At the time, Jiang Qing and associates held effective control of mass media and the party's propaganda network, while Zhou and Deng held control of most government organs.

The Central Committee, under the leadership of Jiang Qing, labelled the event ' counter-revolutionary ', and cleared the square of memorial items shortly after midnight on April 6.

Jiang Qing and her allies pinned Deng Xiaoping as the incident's ' mastermind ', and issued reports on official media to that effect.

But it diluted blame on Mao himself by asserting that the movement was " manipulated by the counterrevolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing ", who caused its worst excesses.

The prominent Maoists, Zhang Chunqiao and Jiang Qing were sentenced to death with two-year-reprieve while some others were sentenced to life imprisonment or imprisonment over 15 years.

The members consisted of Mao Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing, the leading figure of the group, and her close associates Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

The group was led by Jiang Qing, and consisted of three of her close associates, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

Mao placed Jiang Qing, who before 1966 had not taken a public political role, in charge of the country ’ s cultural apparatus.

It is now officially claimed by the Communist Party of China that Mao in his last year turned against Jiang Qing and her associates, and that after his death on 9 September 1976, they attempted to seize power ( the same allegation made against Lin Biao in 1971 ).

During the trial, Jiang Qing in particular was extremely defiant, protesting loudly and bursting into tears at some points.

In 1928, Kuomintang generals Li Jing Lin, Zhang Zi Jiang, and Fung Zu Ziang organized a national martial arts tournament in China ; they did so to screen the best martial artists in order to begin building the Central Martial Arts Academy ( Zhongyang Guoshuguan ).

All members of the Gang of Four have since died ; Jiang Qing committed suicide in 1991, Wang Hongwen died in 1992, and Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan died in 2005.

Chairman Mao now gave his support to the Gang of Four: Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao.

In 1968 Jiang forced Zhou to sign an arrest warrant for his own brother .< ref > Zhang Langlang.

The party apparatus, under orders from Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao, wrote a eulogy affirming Mao's achievements in order to justify their claims to power.

In the evening, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, and Yao Wenyuan were arrested and kept in the lower level of Zhongnanhai.

According to Zhang Yaoci, who carried out the arrest, Jiang Qing did not say much when she was arrested.

Mao's wife Jiang Qing, meanwhile, had formed an informal radical political alliance with Shanghai revolution organizer Wang Hongwen, who seems to have gained Mao's favour as a possible successor, as well as Shanghai Revolutionary Committee Chairman Zhang Chunqiao and propaganda writer Yao Wenyuan, all of whom were elevated to the Politburo by the 10th Congress.

Zhou Enlai died on 8 January 1976, at a time when Deng Xiaoping's moderate alliance was not yet strong enough to stand up to both the ailing Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution allies, the Gang of Four ( Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, and Yao Wenyuan ).

As Sun Ce implemented strict discipline among his troops, he won the instant support of the local people and gathered many talented men, such as Chen Wu, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Qin Song, and Lü Fan.

In the summer of 255, despite the opposition from Zhang Yi ( under the rationale that Shu could not sustain continuous campaigns against Wei ), Jiang Wei again attacked Didao, and was highly successful in his initial battles against Wei's Yong Province ( 雍州 ; present-day Shaanxi ) governor Wang Jing ( 王經 ), nearly annihilating Wang's troops.

Zhang Yi again tried to persuade Jiang Wei to stop his campaign at this point, but Jiang refused.

The so-called Gang of Four ( Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan ) maintains power for about a month, ousted by a coup in October.

Zhang Shuye's biography further described Song Jiang and the outlaws ' activities, and how they were eventually defeated by Zhang.

The fourth chapter covers the adventures of Song Jiang and his 36 companions, and their eventual defeat by Zhang Shuye.

On the establishment of the state of Qi, Jiang Ziya apportioned the land among his many descendants, including a one known as Zhang ().

Though she didn't release new album for years, she was still invite to perform at 9th Asia Song Festival which was held in Yeosul, Korea on 4th Augest. In September, she will be involved in another china drama Tun Shu Xi Jiang about revolution occurring in Xinjiang with Hong Kong actor Bowie Lam and Chinese director Zhang Jizhong.

Later, Jiang Wei made a plan to attack Xu Zhi's force and commanded Liao Hua and Zhang Yi to lead separate armies in opposite directions.