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.

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

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.

Around the time of Chairman Mao's death, Jiang Qing and her proteges maintained control of many of China's power institutions, including a heavy hand in the media and propaganda.

Because Mao's marriage to He had not yet ended, Jiang was reportedly made to sign a marital contract which stipulated that she would not appear in public with Mao as her escort.

When given free rein, Jiang also wreaked vengeance on Mao's family.

Jiang confined Mao's third wife, Jiang's predecessor, to a mental hospital for several decades.

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

Jiang had several of Mao's children, and / or their spouses, arrested.

Poster showing Jiang Qing promoting the fine arts during the Cultural Revolution while holding Mao's " The Little Red Book | Little Red Book.

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.

Jiang Qing showed few signs of sorrow during the days following Mao's death.

On the morning of October 6, 1976, Jiang Qing came to Mao's former residence in Zhongnanhai, gathered her close aides and Mao's former personal aides in a " Study Mao's Work " session.

Since it was common knowledge that Li Xiannian was a great opponent of Jiang Qing and the whole Gang of Four, and that after Mao's death in September of that year, they were still quite influential, Li Xiannian feared eavesdropping.

It was at this trial that Jiang Qing made the famous quote: " I was Chairman Mao's dog.

His chief lieutenants, Lin Biao and Mao's third wife Jiang Qing, had manipulated the turmoil in these areas to glorify Mao to a godlike status while ignoring some of his directives.

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.

After Mao's death, Hua took on the titles of Chairman of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, to the surprise and dismay of Jiang Qing and the rest of the Gang of Four.

On 6 October, less than a month after Mao's death, anti-Gang of Four leaders with Hua at its core executed the arrest of Jiang Qing and her followers, as word came out that the Gang of Four was to soon wage a military coup against the Hua leadership of the CPC.

During the Cultural Revolution, the repression and intimidation led by Mao's fourth wife, Jiang Qing, succeeded in drying up all cultural activity except a few " model " operas and heroic novels, such as those by Hao Ran ( 浩然 ).

From 1966 – 1970, radical factions within the Communist Party, led by Lin Biao and Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, singled out Peng for national persecution, and Peng was publicly humiliated in numerous large-scale struggle sessions and subjected to physical and psychological torture in organized efforts to force Peng to confess his " crimes " against Mao Zedong and the Communist Party.

Of the six or so common xing, only Jiang ( 姜 ) and Yao ( 姚 ) have survived as frequently occurring surnames.

Jiang forced her own daughter with Mao to divorce her husband because her husband was only a farmer, causing Jiang's daughter to go insane.

Upon being contacted by Hua Guofeng, Jiang Qing returned from her trip and spent only a few moments in the hospital's Building 202, where Mao was being treated.

During her public trials at the " Special Court ", Jiang Qing was the only member of the Gang of Four who bothered to argue on her behalf.

Deng's belief, however, stipulated that the only solution to keeping the legitimacy of Communist rule over China was to continue the drive for modernization and economic reform, and therefore placed himself at odds with Jiang.

When American-led NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999, Jiang seemed to have put up a harsh stance for show at home, but in reality only performed symbolic gestures of protest, and no solid action.

His third and final selection, Jiang Zemin, won Deng's continued, although ambiguous backing and was the only General Secretary in Communist Chinese history to voluntarily leave his post when his term ended.

Order was restored only when Yuan Shao reached the camp of his general Jiang Yiqu, from where he gathered his straggling troops.

The Gang of Four, which consisted of Jiang Qing ( Madame Mao ), and three other members meteorically promoted in the late 1960s, were the only members of the first generation of leadership to remain after Mao's death in 1976.

Jiang wore it only on special occasions, such as to state dinners, but this practice was almost totally discontinued by his successor Hu Jintao .. Hu Jintao still wears the Mao suit, however, on special occasions, such as military parades .. By the early part of the 21st century, the Mao suit is rarely worn even on formal occasions.

When Duke You of Jin ( 433-416 ) came to the throne the three clans took over much of the remaining Jin lands, leaving the dukes only the area around Jiang and Quwo.

After Jiang Wan and Dong Yun's deaths, Liu Shan named Jiang Wei as Fei Yi's assistant, but both were largely involved only in military matters, as Liu Shan gradually became more self-assertive in non-military matters.

Song Jiang agrees to the first two terms but cannot comply with the third because he accepted only one of the gold bars Chao Gai sent him.

Much as how he had torn down Yecheng after Yuchi defeat, Emperor Wen tore down Jiankang, establishing only a minor garrison at the nearby Shitou as Jiang Province ( 蔣州 ).

However, Jiang Wei argued Wei Yan's design " could only repel the enemy but not reaping big profit.

When Cao Wei mobilized in September AD 263, Jiang Wei's plan worked -- only for its first half that Wei's forces advanced unopposed until they reached the fortresses of Han ( 汉 ) and Yue ( 乐 ), which served as a bait to wear the enemies out.

Once, Sun Quan walked into the inner halls of Jiang Qin's house, and found that Jiang's mother only had a light bed-curtain and cotton blankets, and his wives and concubines wore only simple cloth dresses.

Jiang disappeared, only to resurface in the Zhou countryside at the apocryphal age of seventy-two, when he was recruited by King Wen of Zhou and became instrumental in Zhou affairs.

An account of Jiang Taigong's life written long after his time says he held that a country could become powerful only when the people prospered.

Xu Ning's cousin, Tang Long, who has joined Liangshan, recommends Xu to Song Jiang, saying that Xu is the only person who knows how to defeat Huyan Zhuo's cavalry.

Li Kui, however, happily embraces his fate and only requests to be buried together with Song Jiang after his death.