* 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.

Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao received death sentences that were later commuted to life imprisonment, while Wang Hongwen and Yao Wenyuan were given life and twenty years in prison, respectively.

Thus, the actual name that Chiang received at birth was Jiang Ruiyuan ().

For the next fifteen years or so, Chiang was known as Jiang Zhiqing ( Wade-Giles: Chiang Chi-ching ).

In 1912, when Jiang Zhiqing was in Japan, he started to use the name Chiang Kai-shek ( Chinese: 蔣介石 ; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang Chieh-shih ) as a pen name for the articles that he published in a Chinese magazine he founded ( Voice of the Army ( Chinese: 軍聲 ).

Since Jiang Zemin became the national party chief in June 1989, all but one former Shanghai party chief was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body in China, including Jiang Zemin ( General secretary and President ), Zhu Rongji ( Premier ), Wu Bangguo ( Chairman of the National People's Congress ), Huang Ju ( Vice Premier ), and Xi Jinping ( Vice President ).

When Empress Dowager Deng died, Emperor An ( r. 106 – 125 CE ) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run ( 李閏 ) and Jiang Jing ( 江京 ) that Deng and her family had planned to depose him.

For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.

This was followed by a protest and mass demonstrations, most notably in Wuhan on July 20, where Jiang openly denounced any " counter-revolutionary activity "; she later personally flew to Wuhan to criticize Chen Zaidao, the general in charge of the Wuhan area.

Furthermore, despite Mao's efforts to put on a show of unity at the Congress, the factional divide between Lin Biao's PLA camp and the Jiang Qing-led radical camp was intensifying.

President Jiang Zemin was alerted to the demonstration by Politburo member Luo Gan, and was reportedly angered by the audacity of the demonstration — the largest since the Tiananmen Square protests ten years earlier, and called for resolute action to suppress the group.

That Falun Gong, whose belief system represented a revival of traditional Chinese religion, was being practiced by a large number of Communist Party members and members of the military was seen as particularly disturbing to Jiang Zemin.

Jiang Qing ( March 19, 1914May 14, 1991 ) was the pseudonym that was used by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's last wife and major Communist Party of China power figure.

Jiang Qing was most well known for playing a major role in the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 76 ) and for forming the radical political alliance known as the " Gang of Four ".

Jiang Qing served as Mao's personal secretary in the 1940s and was head of the Film Section of the CPC Propaganda Department in the 1950s.

However, Jiang Qing's political success was limited.

Since then, Jiang Qing and Lin Biao have been branded by official historical documents in China as the " Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-revolutionary Cliques " ( 林彪江青反革命集团 / 林彪江青反革命集團 ), to which most of the blame for the damage and devastation caused by the Cultural Revolution was assigned.

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of " torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs ".

When Mao's eldest son was killed in the Korean War, his widow accused Jiang of feeling " immense ecstasy ".

Many of them, including Shining Path, criticized him for this and accused him of being a traitor for ousting Jiang Qing.

Zhou Bo, who had been instrumental in Emperor Wen's becoming emperor and who had by that point retired to his March of Jiang ( 絳, in modern Linfen, Shanxi ), was falsely accused of treason.

While Bo was not directly involved in the scandal, Jiang accused Bo of providing political cover for his friends and relatives.

When Cao Cao's guest advisor Jiang Gan paid a second visit to Zhou Yu for the purpose of leaking back military information back to Cao, Zhou accused him of stealing secret information about enemy generals Cai Mao and Zhang Yun during his earlier visit ( which was a ruse staged by Zhou ) and had Jiang locked up in a temple.

It appears likely that Jiang was behind many of the witchcraft accusations against important persons — including Prince Ju's sisters Princesses Zhuyi and Yangshi and cousin Wei Kang ( 衛伉 ) ( Wei Qing's son ), who were executed in 91 BC after being accused of witchcraft.

He was once even willing to kill Song Jiang after the latter was falsely accused of a kidnapping a man's daughter.

After he had spent more than a year at Pingle, the deputy minister Jiang Cen ( 蔣岑 ) further accused Yuwen of corruption while serving as prefect of Bian Prefecture.