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She was born as Lǐ Shúméng (李淑蒙) in Zhucheng (诸城), Shandong Province. She is also known as Lǐ Jìn (李进) and Lǐ Yúnhè (李云鹤), and was an actress under the stage name of Lán Píng (蓝苹). Jiang joined the Communist Party of China in 1933 and worked as an actress in Shanghai from 1933 to 1937. In 1939 she married Mao Zedong in Yan'anYan'an (, pinyin Yan'n, or Yen-an in Wade-Giles), is a city in Shaanxi province, China. It was the destination of the Long March and the center of Chinese Communist revolution from 1935 to 1948. Chinese Communists celebrate Yan'an as the birthplace of the.
She became a member of the PolitburoThe Politburo of the Communist Party of China is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party of China. Unlike politburos (political bureaus) of other Communist Parties, power within the politburo is centralized in the Politburo Standing Com in 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i. She was appointed as the deputy director of the Cultural RevolutionThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ( Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: wu chn jie ji wen hua da ge ming, literally "Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution"; often abbreviated to wen hua da ge ming, literally "Great Cultural Revolu in 1966Events January January 1 In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 Strike of public transportation workers in New York City ends January 13 January 3 First Acid Test at the Fil, and formed the famous Gang of Four with Zhang ChunqiaoZhang Chunqiao (, Pinyin Zhng Chunqiao) (born 1917) was a member of the Gang of Four. He worked as a writer in Shanghai in the 1930s. After the Yan'an conference in 1938, he joined the Communist Party of China. With the creation of the People's Republic o, Yao WenyuanYao Wenyuan (, Pinyin Yao Wenyuan) (born 1931) is a former Chinese writer and propaganda official and a member of the Gang of Four in the People's Republic of China. He began his career in Shanghai as a literary critic. After meeting Zhang Chunqiao, he de and Wang Hongwen. From that point on, she was the most powerful figure in China during Mao's last years.
Jiang incited radical youths organized as Red Guards against other senior political leaders and government officials, including Liu Shaoqi, the President of the PRC at that time, and Deng Xiaoping, deputy Premier. Internally divided into factions both to the "left" and "right" of Jiang Qing and Mao, not all Red Guards were friendly to Jiang Qing.
Jiang also directed revolutionary operas as part of an effort to transform China's culture. Critics say her influence on art was too restrictive.
Jiang first collaborated with then 2nd-in-charge Lin Biao, but after Lin's death in a plane crash in 1971, she turned against him publicly in the Anti-Lin, Anti-Confucius Campaign . She was arrested after the Cultural Revolution ended ( 1976).
At her trial in 1981 she was the only member of the Gang of Four who bothered to argue on her behalf. She was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in 1981, and the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. She was released for medical reasons in 1991. Ten days after her release, she killed herself in her apartment. The circumstances of her death are under suspicion because of her opposition to the regime. Other initial reports located her place of death as prison and some suggested that she did not commit suicide.
See also: Politics of the People's Republic of China
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