Qi Benyu

Benyu Qi (Chinese戚本禹, Hanyu Pinyin: Qi Běnyǔ, Wade- Giles: Ch'i Pen - Yu; * 1931 in Weihai, Shandong Province ) is an ultra- left theorist and propagandist during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He was a member of the Cultural Revolution Group, Chairman of the Xinfang Department and Vice - Chairman of the Central Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the history department of the magazine Red Flag. He was dismissed from his offices and imprisoned in 1968.

Life

Youth

Qi Benyu attended the Central School of the Communist Youth League of China and joined as a student at the beginning of the 50s of the Communist Party of China. After his graduation he became assistant secretary of Mao Zedong Tian Jiaying. In 1963 he wrote an article about Li Xiucheng, a leader of the Taiping Rebellion. In this article, he attacked Luo Ergang, the previous authority in this field, violently and thus won Mao's consent. As a result, Qi was taken to the office of the Red Banner. There he published on December 8, 1965 as a reaction to Yao Wenyuans " criticism of Hai Rui 's dismissal ," the article "For the revolution to explore the history," in which he criticized several historians, without, however, to mention these by name. Please note the above pursued by Jian Bozan approach, the different viewpoints of social classes and the perspectives of historicism, he has, as a capitalist points of view that were " standing above classes " and " objectivist " back. Mao liked the article, and he praised him with the words: "Who are today's authorities? There are Yao Wenyuan, Qi Benyu, Yin Da ... people of low age, low knowledge, fixed positions and stable political experience. " However, the article does not he go far enough, and he encouraged Qi to him unpleasant historians also attack name. Then Qi wrote an article in which he attacked Wu Han and directly took part in another essay, in which Jian Bozan was criticized. Both appeared in the People's Daily and laid the foundation for Qi's reputation as a radical theorist and critic.

Political rise

From mid-1966 began Qi steep climb during the Cultural Revolution. In May, he was a member of the Cultural Revolution Group and shortly afterwards Vice- Chairman of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and acting director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. Also in the Red Flag he was promoted to deputy editor. Also still in 1966 he became secretary of Mao Zedong and his wife Jiang Qing. In the Seventh Edition of the Red Banner of the year 1966, he published the article " critique of capitalist views of Qianxianund Beijing Ribao " (both newspapers were of the Beijing Parteikommittees ). Qi played an increasingly important role in the campaigns against Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and the old party establishment, and when trying the Cultural Revolution Group in late 1966 / early 1967, further inciting the rebels.

Of the many articles and speeches Qi during the years 1966 and 1967 wrote was in the " Red Flag ", published on March 30, 1967 article " patriotism or treason? Criticism of the historical film secret history of the Qing palace " of particular importance. He was highly praised by Mao and appeared on April 1, in full text in the People's Daily, the most widely read newspaper in the People's Republic. The article is " a classic example of hidden political allusions and character assassination in the Cultural Revolution -style " and is aimed primarily against Liu Shaoqi, without that this would ever mentioned by name. On him as "the greatest capitalist roaders in the Party " and "China's Khrushchev" is instead continually referred to.

The article initiated a new wave of nationwide campaigns against Liu and determined the tenor of the now increasingly emerging " revolutionary great criticism" that " the handful of biggest capitalist roader in the Party " and " the course of the counter-revolutionary revisionism " was directed against. Qi started now directly in the political process to intervene, he guided them by Red Guards, to bring Peng Dehuai from Sichuan back to Beijing and she encouraged, even within the government district Zhongnanhai against Liu, Deng, Zhu De and Tao Zhu proceed. On April 14, 1967, he declared that the written by Yu Luoke treatise " discussion of the origin of Classes" contains toxic ideas, which meant that this was sentenced on March 5, 1970 death.

Wang Guan - Qi affair

From 1967 forced Qi together with Wang Li, Guan Feng and other members of the Cultural Revolution Group Mao's plans to enforce the Cultural Revolution also in the military and called the people to the " handful Capitalist Roaders " ferret in the People's Liberation Army, which they have met fierce resistance. In foreign policy radicalization was sought, which culminated in the storming of the British embassy in Beijing on August 22. Mao saw himself now to a growing chaos in his main remaining power base, the military, over and on the other vehement werdendem intra-party opposition. Therefore, he decided to drop the so-called "three small" Wang, Guan and Qi. The former two were removed from their posts in August 1967, and the last was finally Qi arrested on 13 January 1968, he was stripped of all items inside and outside the party. On January 26, all three were taken to the notorious Qingcheng Prison.

The main charge was revealed by Jiang Qing in an directed to officers of the PLA speech: the " Wang Guan Qi anti - Party clique " have worked since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution secretly for Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Tao Zhu. Although the total time incarcerated, Qi was formally arrested by Beijing police office until July 14, 1980 and November 2, 1983 by the Intermediate People's Court of the city of Beijing as a member of the counter-revolutionary cliques Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, and for ' counter-revolutionary propaganda ', ' false accusations ' and ' inciting the masses to violence and destruction ' (da- za- qiang ) sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment and four years of the withdrawal of rights, with him already served 15 years were counted.

After 1986, he was released from prison, Qi worked as a librarian in the collections of the Library of Shanghai until he retired at the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, he was co-editor of the nine -volume " Glossary to the teaching of Yijing " out and has set next to continued studies and lectures, and a foot in the economy, with particular interest in the financial and banking sector. He has two sons and a daughter. End of his life he spends with his wife Qiu Yunying alive together with his younger son.

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