At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, on November 10, 1965, Yao Wenyuan in one of his most famous pieces of writing published an article in Wenhuibao criticizing the play Ha… See more

Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, and, in the subsequent months, a power struggle occurred … See more

Immediately after the arrests, Premier Hua Guofeng, Marshal Ye Jianying, and economic czars Chen Yun and Li Xiannian formed the core of the next party leadership. … See more

The Gang of Four trials were part of the communist party's effort to establish an institutionalized justice system.: 222 The trials were highly visible to the Chinese public than… See more