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Jiang Qing

1914–1991 · 20th century

Jiang Qing was a Chinese actress and politician, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong. During the Cultural Revolution she led radical attacks on the arts and party officials and became the most prominent member of the Gang of Four. Arrested in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, she was tried in 1980–81 and sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment; she died in 1991.

Jiang Qing
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