In addition to Veronica, the popular clique consists of three wealthy and beautiful ( but deeply unhappy ) girls with the same first name: the malicious leader, Heather Chandler ( Kim Walker ); the bookish bulimic Heather Duke ( Shannen Doherty ) and the weak-willed cheerleader Heather McNamara ( Lisanne Falk ).

Heather Duke soon steps into Heather Chandler's former role as clique leader and begins wearing a red scrunchie that had belonged to Chandler.

Mao won this confrontation, labeled Peng as a leader of an " anti-Party clique ", and purged Peng from all influential positions for the rest of his life.

The first resolution condemned Peng as the leader of an " anti-Party clique ", and called for Peng's removal from the positions of Defense Minister and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission.

Deng's speech also stated that Mao's decision in 1959, which vilified Peng as the leader of an " anti-Party clique ", had been " entirely wrong ", and that it had " undermined intra-Party democracy ".

By 1893 Blatchford was the leader of his own clique within the ILP, the Clarionettes and in 1894 he published Merrie England in order to educate the British about socialism ; this sold over two million copies, many at football matches and other public events.

When Cordelia begins dating Xander Harris, Harmony shuns her from their clique and usurps her position as leader of the group.

Cao Kun ( Courtesy name: Zhongshan ( 仲珊 )) ( December 12, 1862-May 15, 1938 ) was a military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army, and trustee of the Catholic University of Peking.

They included Zhang Xun ( who attempted to restore the Qing dynasty in 1917 ), Xu Shichang ( President of the Republic of China 1918 – 22 ), Cao Kun ( President 1922 – 24 and leader of the Zhili military clique ), Duan Qirui (" Prime Minister " during much of 1916 – 20 and leader of the Anhui military clique ) and Feng Guozhang ( President 1917 – 18 and founder of the Zhili clique ).

His deputy Cao Kun replaced him as leader of the Zhili clique.

In Lisi Harrison's young adult novel series, The Clique, set in an all-girls middle school, the term is used in a subtly different sense: whereas the leader of the eponymous clique is described as the " alpha " or " Queen Bee ", her right-hand-woman or " beta " is also termed the " It girl ", being physically more attractive.

However, Zhang Zuolin, leader of the Fengtian clique, became increasingly uneasy with Wu Peifu's vehement anti-Japanese stance that threatened to upset the delicate arrangement Zhang had reached with the Japanese in his power base of Manchuria.

Fighting is an integral part of the game ; each of the game's five chapters culminate in a battle against the leader or leaders of a given clique.

* Russell Northrop: The leader of the Bullies clique.

Brendan searches for Emily and arranges a meeting through Dode, leader of a stoner clique that Emily belongs to.

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

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.

This was reverted between 1980 and 1981, as the three posts were assigned to three different people, but this system was re-established by Jiang Zemin as he became paramount leader of China.

Hu has been involved in the Communist party bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as Party secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and then later First secretary of the Party Central Secretariat and Vice-President under former leader Jiang Zemin.

In 2003, Jiang was also re-elected to the post of Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC, a post from which Deng Xiaoping was able to wield power from behind the scenes as ' paramount leader ', thus retaining military power.

Jiang Zemin retired from his post as Chairman of the party's Central Military Commission in September 2004 to Hu Jintao, and from the state's in March 2005, solidifying Hu's position as paramount leader.

Because of local Red Guards ' lack of enthusiasm to carry out Jiang Qing's orders, a more radical Red Guard leader, Wang Dabin, arrived in Chengdu on December 24, and denounced his local comrades as " rightists " and " traitors " for delaying Peng's arrest.

The Chinese government has presented its Red Leaf brand porcelain as gifts to foreign heads of state ; in 2002, the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin presented some to U. S. President George W. Bush.

But Hu prevailed in succeeding Jiang, ostensibly because Hu had the support of former leader Deng Xiaoping.

When Deng began to groom Jiang Zemin ( a former governor of Shanghai ) to succeed him as paramount leader, Yang resisted Jiang's leadership, and Deng successfully forced Yang to retire in 1992, along with some of his family.

However, as Jiang has now retired from all of his positions at the 4th Plenary Meeting of 16th National Congress of the CPC, Hu is now the legitimate paramount leader of the CPC.

In the Communist Party's official discourse, the " generational " division and identification of the " core leader " for each of the first, second and third generations was set down during the leadership of Jiang Zemin.

The transition towards the third generation of leaders began in 1989 when, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Deng Xiaoping nominated Jiang Zemin to succeed Zhao Ziyang as formal leader of the Communist Party of China.

Connections between characters are vague, but the individual stories are eventually pieced together by chapter 40 after Song Jiang succeeds Chao Gai as the leader of the outlaw band, after the latter dies in battle against the Zeng Family Fortress.

Jiang Yiwu ( 蔣翊武 ) was chosen as the leader.

The elder Jiang was a military strategist and adviser to Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek.

Although he was ignorant to the reason, Jiang Wei was recalled by an imperial edict and he could not disobey ; but Liao Hua refuted these orders and advised Jiang Wei that " a leader in the field is independent and need not obey even the command of his prince.

The staff are guided by the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's idea that " Education must meet the needs of modernization and face the world and the future " and by CPC General secretary, Chinese president Jiang Zemin's Three Represents ( Simplified Chinese: 三个代表 ) theory.

After the 1989 crackdown, Bo Yibo helped ensure the ascent of Jiang Zemin to succeed Deng Xiaoping as the leader of the Party and helped Jiang consolidate power in the 1990s.

In the course of his career, Bo Xilai was the beneficiary of considerable patronage from former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin.

As Paramount leader Jiang Zemin, NPCSC Chairman Li Peng and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji, gradually retired from their position of power, " fourth-generation " leaders, led by CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, faced with increasing social unrest, attempted to steer the country towards a new direction.

Furthermore, Chen Boda was also placed as head of the Communist government's propaganda machine alongside Jiang Qing when the previous leader, Lu Dingyi, was deposed in 1966.

* The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming Dynasty of China, then under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor ; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing Dynasty which overthrows the short-lived Shun Dynasty in 1644 and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.

* Manchurian leader Qing Tai Zu crowns himself king.

Koxinga, also known as Zheng Chenggong, was a military leader from the Ming government located in the coastal region, capable of threatening the Qing.

He was an outspoken writer and political leader by the time of the Wuchang Uprising ( 武昌起義 ) of 1911, which led to the abdication of the last Qing emperor and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.

Later these were unified in Manchu Qing Empire with Nurhaci as their leader and founder.

After the fall of the Qing in 1911, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the newly risen Republic of China, developed similar procedures for the new political system through an institution called the Examination Yuan, one of the five branches of government, although this was quickly suspended due to the turmoil in China between the two world wars, such as the warlord period and the Japanese invasion.

Their last leader, Prince Amursanaa revolted against the Qing, and fled north to seek refuge with the Russians.

The brief civil war that ensued was ended through a political compromise between Yuan Shikai, the late Qing military strongman, and Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Tongmenghui ( United League ).

After revolutionary leader Ni Yingdian was killed by Qing forces, the remaining revolutionaries were quickly defeated, causing the uprising to fail.

By the mid-17th century, the Amur Daurs fell under the influence of the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty which crushed the resistance of Bombogor, leader of the Evenk-Daur Federation in 1640.

Zuo Zongtang (, pronounced ; Courtesy name: ) ( November 10, 1812-September 5, 1885 ), spelled Tso Tsung-t ' ang in Wade-Giles and known simply as General Tso in the West, was a Chinese statesman and military leader in the late Qing Dynasty.

* Tso Tsung-t ' ang ( 1812 – 1885 ), Qing Dynasty military leader who suppressed the 1862 – 1877 Dungan Revolt

According to official histories from the Qing era, Nurhaci, a military leader of the Jurchen tribes in northeast China and founder of what became the Chinese imperial Qing Dynasty, renamed his tribe after Mañjuśrī.

As the longstanding leader of the organisation, Yixin was responsible for spearheading various reforms during the early part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, a series of measures taken by the Qing government to modernise China.

They preserved their independence until they had to seek help from the Kangxi Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty against the Dzungar leader Galdan in 1688.

In any event, the situation did not last long as the Tây Sơn leader, Nguyễn Huệ, launched a surprise attack against the Qing forces while they were celebrating the Chinese New Year festival of the year 1789.

In 1975, Mu reported to Mao Zedong about opposition of Jiang Qing, leader of Gang of Four, towards Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping once he got hold of the information from his reporters, ignoring the potential consequences that might have caused him.

The Criticize Lin ( Biao ), Criticize Confucius Campaign () ( also called the Anti-Lin Biao, Anti-Confucius campaign ) was a political propaganda campaign started by Mao Zedong and his wife, Jiang Qing, the leader of the Gang of Four.