Shortly after this promotion, Li would play a major role in ending Zhao's career, after Zhao publicly supported demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

Although Deng Xiaoping was Zhao's only firm supporter among the Party elders, Deng's support was sufficient to protect Zhao throughout Zhao's career.

As late as April 1989, one month before the dramatic end of Zhao's career, Deng assured Zhao that he had secured the support of Chen Yun and Li Xiannian for Zhao to serve two more full terns as Party General Secretary.

The minimum age for the military draft was reduced to twenty after Emperor Zhao's ( r. 87 – 74 BCE ) reign.

Bao Pu was also an editor for Zhao's autobiography, Prisoner of the State.

Since Sichuan province was a strong base of Maoist radicalism during the Cultural Revolution, the ardent followers of the Gang of Four vehemently opposed Zhao's reforms.

Over the years in Sichuan during the Cultural Revolution, there were no fewer than half a dozen attempts on Zhao's life, the most serious of which was an ambush of Zhao's jeep in a valley during one of his trips.

He narrowly escaped death, but in an attempt to save Zhao's life, his driver / secretary was crushed and buried in the artificially induced landslide.

This was the only fatality that resulted from attempts on Zhao's life.

" Zhao's vacated premiership was in turn filled by Li Peng, a conservative who opposed many of Zhao's economic and political reforms.

The idea of opening China to the stock market remained taboo throughout Zhao's time in government, but was gradually implemented later, in the 1990s.

As the president and the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, he even praised Zhao's position by claiming that “ Ziyang ’ s notion of pacifying the student movement through democracy and law is good and seems quite workable right now .” Zhao's position was contested by Premier Li Peng, who wanted to use force to suppress the student demonstrations, and who engaged in an internal power struggle with Zhao to convince other senior leaders of his position.

In Zhao's autobiography, Chen was one of the few elders who Zhao referred to regularly as a " comrade ".

However, Cao Huan was also a figurehead under Sima Zhao's control much like his predecessor.

Shouchun was quickly regained by Wei under Sima Zhao's command.

However, in 5 BC, after Empress Dowager Fu was more successful in her quest for titles — Emperor Ai removed the qualification " of Dingtao " from his father's posthumous title ( thus making him simply " Emperor Gong "), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title ( ditaitaihou ( 帝太太后 ), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title taihuangtaihou ( 太皇太后 )) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title ( ditaihou ( 帝太后 ), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title huangtaihou ( 皇太后 )) -- the prime minister Zhu Bo ( 朱博 ) and vice prime minister Zhao Xuan ( 趙玄 ), at her behest, submitted a petition to have Wang demoted to commoner status for having opposed Grand Empress Fu previously.

Emperor Wu was ecstatic in having a child at his advanced age ( 62 ), and because Consort Zhao purportedly had a pregnancy that lasted 14 months long — the same length as the mythical Emperor Yao -- he named Consort Zhao's palace gate " Gate of Yao's Mother.

The palace was run by Princess Eyi, Emperor Wu's daughter and Emperor Zhao's older sister, who had moved back to the palace to serve as Emperor Zhao's caretaker.

Prince Dan of Yan was not happy about the turn in events that led to Emperor Zhao's ascension.

Public fears about the negative effects of market reforms gave conservatives ( including Li Peng ) the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influences, especially opposing further expansion of Zhao's more free enterprise-oriented approach.

The public in interviewed in Hangzhou was not even aware of Mr Zhao's operations, especially in the clothing sector.

Though Song Renqiong died before Zhao Ziyang, he requested that his floral wreath and elegiac coupler appeared in Zhao's funeral.

Zhao found himself in multi-front turf battles with the Party elders, who grew increasingly dissatisfied with Zhao's hands-off approach to ideological matters.

In early 318, Han Zhao's emperor Liu Cong executed Emperor Min, and three months later, news arrived in Jiankang.

Because he had led the Communist Youth League in the 1950s, Zhao often relied on its former members for support, and Zhao's enemies accused him of promoting a " Communist Youth League faction " within the CCP.

The military prowess of Zhou peaked during the 19th year of King Zhao's reign, when the six armies were wiped out along with King Zhao on a campaign around the Han River.

Politically, Li opposed the modern economic reforms pioneered by Zhao Ziyang throughout Zhao's years of public service.

Initially, Sun Quan mourned his brother's death so much that he could do nothing, but at Zhang Zhao's behest, he dressed himself in military uniform and set out to visit the commanderies under his brother's control.

To his credit, he also personally went to Zhang Zhao's house and apologized to him.

In defense of the areas surrounding Nanking, Yu Jishi's two divisions of 74th Corps guarded Banqiao-Chunhua, Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Corps-group ( 41st & 48th Divisions ) guarded Mengtang-Longtan, and Ye Zhao's 66th Corps & Deng Longguang's 83rd Corps guarded east and west sides of Mt Tangshan.

Zhao's faith in Mao led him to take a leading role in a local campaign aimed at torturing peasants into revealing their imaginary food supplies.

Zhao's experiences during the Great Leap Forward led him to support moderate political and economic policies, including those supported by Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi.

Zhao's methods of returning private plots to farmers and assigning production contracts to individual households were replicated in other parts of China, helping the country's agricultural sector recover.

While in political exile, Zhao's family lived in a small apartment close to his factory, with a small suitcase in the living room that served as a dinner table.

Zhao's rehabilitation began in April 1971, when he and his family were woken in the middle of the night by someone banging on the door.

Zhao's late conversion to Maoism did not last long, and he later became a " principle architect " of the sweeping, pro-capitalist changes that followed the death of Mao.

Throughout 1972 Zhou Enlai directed Zhao's political rehabilitation.

( This saying is a pun on Zhao's name, which can be loosely translated as: " if you want to eat, look for Ziyang.

However, Zhao's policy had huge popular support and the supporters of the Gang of Four turned to assassination after all other supposedly legal means failed.

His professional career began when he was twenty ; ;

`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

During his college career, Dr. Clark was captain of his basketball team and was a football letterman.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

Some commentators have suggested that this incident would influence Kurosawa's later artistic career, as the director was seldom hesitant to confront unpleasant truths in his work.

Perhaps this is enough evidence to suggest that Poirot's police career was a successful one.

) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

His career was forwarded by the Church however and institutions of the Catholic clerics supported his early advance.

Displacing Ur-Zababa, Sargon was crowned king, and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest.