Zhang Chunqiao

Zhang Chunqiao (Chinese张春桥/张春桥, Pinyin Zhang Chunqiao, IPA (high Chinese) [ tʂɑŋ tʂ ʰ ʰ úntɕ jɑ̌ʊ ], W.-G. Chang Ch'un -chiao; born 1 February 1917 in Heze, Republic of China, † 21 April 2005 in Beijing, people's Republic of China ) was a leading politician in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution. Along with Mao Zedong 's wife Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen he belonged to the so-called Gang of Four.

Biography

In the 1930s, Zhang Chunqiao worked as a writer in Shanghai. After the Yan'an Conference of 1938 he joined the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People 's Republic of China, he was entrusted with the publication of the newspaper Liberation ( Jiefang Ribao解放 日报). He was known in this case with Jiang Qing and the Cultural Revolution helped her to start. In 1966 he was Party Secretary of Shanghai. In 1967 he organized the Shanghai municipality and was elected in 1973, the Standing Committee of the Politburo. In 1975 Zhang the height of his power, when he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. But a year later, in 1976, he was arrested at the fall of the Gang of Four in 1981 and sentenced to death. This sentence was commuted two years later in life imprisonment.

2002 Zhang Chunqiao was released on medical parole. Thereafter he lived in retirement in Shanghai and died of a cancerous condition.

Publications

• Chang Chun - chiao: For all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie. Publisher Foreign Languages ​​Press, Peking 1975
• Chang Chun - chiao: Report on the amendment of the Constitution. ( in: The Constitution of the People's Republic of China / documents of the first session of the Fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China Publishing House for Foreign Literature, Beijing 1975.. )