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  Wang Hongwen --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Wang was a member of the notorious Gang of Four, who gained great political power during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), which was launched by Chairman Mao Zedong to purge thousands of moderate party officials and intellectuals.
Wang Hung-wen was reportedly born in either 1934 or 1935 in Jilin province, China.
Wang was born in Shanghai and came to the United States in 1945.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314071?tocId=9314071   (730 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wang Anshi
Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Chinese imperial official, chief councillor (1070-1076) to the Song Emperor Shenzong.
Like many statesmen of his day, Wang Anshi was a literary figure as well as a political reformer.
Wang, Taylor Gun-Jin, born in 1940, Chinese-born American astronaut and physicist.
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 Gang of Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The group included Mao's widow Jiang Qing and three of her close associates, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.
Zhang, Yao and Wang were party leaders in Shanghai who had played leading roles in securing that city for Mao during the Cultural Revolution.
The radicals hoped that the key Army leaders Wang Dongxing and Chen Xilian would support them, but Hua seems to have won the Army over to his side.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gang_of_Four   (664 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wang Wei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wang Wei (699-759), Chinese painter and poet, a figure of legendary stature; Wang is considered the founder of the pure landscape style of painting...
Many of Wang Wei's poems concern his estate near the Wang-ch'uan, or Wang River.
For Wang Wei, an 8th-century Chinese painter and poet, landscape painting was not a display of decorative art, but an expression of an inner state...
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 Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages--Wang Hongwen
Wang Hongwen (1935-1992) was the youngest member of the 'Gang of Four'.
Wang, Zhang, Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan would become known as the Gang of Four.
In October 1976, Wang was arrested by Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying as a member of the Gang of Four and expelled from the Party.
www.iisg.nl /~landsberger/whw.html   (560 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Cultural Revolution
This raised Wang Hongwen into real power in the city, and in the city's CCP power apparatus.
Wang Hongwen (Chinese: 王洪文, pinyin Wáng Hóngwén, Wade-Giles: Wang Hung-wen) (1933/1935–August 3, 1992) was the youngest member of the Gang of Four.
In September 1972, Shanghaiese Wang Hongwen was transferred to work in Beijing for the Central Government, becoming the Party Vice-Chairman, in the subsequent year.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cultural-Revolution   (11728 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Anything for Power: The Real Story of China's Jiang Zemin - Chapter 3
Wang Yeping herself returned to Shanghai, which she had longed for, and was assigned a job in the same institute as was Jiang.
Wang of course had to take the request seriously, for if Jiang were to be labeled a traitor she would be herself guilty by association.
Wang thus strongly recommended Jiang Zemin to Gu Mu, saying that Jiang was a cadre with higher education and the foster son of a martyr.
english.epochtimes.com /news/5-7-9/30181.html   (6821 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wang Hongwen (1934-92) was a native of Changchun, Jilin Province.
During the ``cultural revolution'', he served as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a member of its Standing Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee.
In January 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of political rights for life by the Special Court under the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /dengxp/vol2/note/B0420.html   (135 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wang Mang
Wang Mang (45 bc-ad23), Chinese emperor, founder and only ruler (ad9-23) of the Xin dynasty.
A nephew of a Han empress, Wang Mang became a regent in...
Wudi's immediate successors maintained the empire for a time, but three consecutive weak rulers allowed imperial regent Wang Mang (45 bc-ad 23) to...
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 Gang of Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Zhang, Yao and Wang were party leaders in Shanghai who had played leading roles in capturing that city in the Chinese Revolution.
The military leader, Lin Biao, was also part of this group until his sudden death in a plane crash in 1971.
While their imprisonment was not harsh, they were all released later.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gang_of_Four   (692 words)

  
 Wang Xizhi --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It is said that even in his lifetime a few of Wang's characters or his signature were priceless; down through the ages, aspiring students of that most basic yet highest art in China, calligraphy, have copied and preserved traces of his style.
Wang, An (1920–90), Chinese American inventor of computer memory core.
Discusses Wang Dan's early impressions of democracy, lessons learned from Tiananmen Square, and its lasting effects on China.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9076052?tocId=9076052   (720 words)

  
 People's Republic of China: IV
One major effect of the plenum was the resignation of the members of the "Little Gang of Four" (an allusion to the original Gang of Four, Mao's allies)--Hua's closest collaborators and the backbone of opposition to Deng.
Wang Dongxing, Wu De, Ji Dengkui, and Chen Xilian were charged with "grave [but unspecified] errors" in the struggle against the Gang of Four and demoted from the Political Bureau to mere Central Committee membership.
The same sentence was given to Zhang Chunqiao, while Wang Hongwen was given life and Yao Wenyuan twenty years.
www-chaos.umd.edu /history/prc4.html   (1863 words)

  
 Zhang Chunqiao, persecuted thousands in China
Another member of the Gang of Four, Wang Hongwen, died in 1992.
Zhang and Wang set up a Shanghai Revolutionary Committee that tried to turn the city, China's most prosperous and Westernized, into a bastion of Maoist radicalism.
In one incident, 100,000 radicals led by Wang attacked a factory held by a rival faction and beat, kidnapped or tortured at least 600 rivals, according to trial testimony.
www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xzhang11.html   (428 words)

  
 Wang Hongwen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wang Hongwen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Wang Hongwen (Chinese: 王洪文, pinyin Wáng Hóngwén, Wade-Giles: Wang Hung-wen) (1933/1935–August 3, 1992) was the youngest member of the Gang of Four.
This page was last modified 02:25, 31 May 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wang_Hongwen   (165 words)

  
 The Seoul Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Zhang; Jiang Qing, Mao's widow; Yao Wenyuan; and Wang Hongwen were arrested in a moment of rare drama by an elite unit of the People's Liberation Army.
Wang died of a liver ailment in 1992.
Top Party officials are denounced during an afternoon-long rally in Red Guard Square: Wang Yilun (left) is accused of being a "fl gang element." Harbin, August 29, 1966.
theseoultimes.com /ST/db/read.php?idx=1913   (1135 words)

  
 In Defence of Marxism - What is really happening in China?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Commenting on such “incidents”, Wang HongWen, leader of the so-called “Left” wing of the party leadership, emphasizes to the foreign press in 1973 that, “there still remains a number of cadres, especially leading cadres who do not tolerate different ideas on the part of the masses, either inside or outside the party.
The violent campaign of “dazibaos” (wall posters) against Deng was orchestrated by Wang HongWen, the “youngster” (40 years old) of the Chinese leadership, and the previous leader of the so-called cultural revolution in Shanghai.
The appointment of Hua as vice-president of the Party is a sharp rebuff for Wang HongWen, since the post of first vice-president of the Central Committee should have been his.
www.marxist.com /china-really-happening140104.htm   (13565 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wang Ching-wei
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Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), Chinese political leader and head of the puppet Kuomintang (KMT) regime under the Japanese during World War II...
As the year 1940 closed in China the country was believed to be much stronger from a military standpoint than it had been at the beginning of the four-year Sino-Japanese conflict.
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 China
Mao now gave his support to the Gang of Four: Jiang Qing (Mao's third wife), Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan and Zhange Chungqiao.
Jiang Qing and Zhange Chungqiao, who were considered to be the leaders, were sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment).
Wang Hongwen and Yao Wenyuan received lengthy prison sentences.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWchina.htm   (984 words)

  
 Wang Wayne: 3D View of the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The script was written by Wang, Auster, and Hustvedt but it is credited to Ellen Wong, a pseudonym that encompasses their collective work.
Wang eschews the big, somewhat melodramatic style he used in THE JOY LUCK CLUB for relaxed, natural direction that allows the actors, who are all terrific, to project an everyday realism seldom seen in American movies.
Wang, Wayne - Wang, Wayne The Onion AV Club has a conversation with the director of Chan Is Missing and Chinese Box.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Wang Hui
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Wang Hui (1632-1720), Chinese landscape artist, the most important of the painters known as the Four Wangs, who dominated Chinese art in the late...
Search for books about your topic, "Wang Hui"
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 Chapter 5, Section 2- Current Chinese History Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In October, less than a month after Mao's death, Jiang Qing and her three principal associates-- denounced as the Gang of Four --were arrested with the assistance of two senior Political Bureau members, Minister of National Defense Ye Jianying (1897-1986) and Wang Dongxing, commander of the CCP's elite bodyguard.
Within days it was formally announced that Hua Guofeng had assumed the positions of party chairman, chairman of the party's Central Military Commission, and premier.
Hua was confirmed as party chairman, and Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, and Wang Dongxing were elected vice chairmen.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/c05s02.html   (7346 words)

  
 Gang of Four. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most notable of the Gang of Four was Jiang Qing, Mao’s widow.
The others were Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Zhang Chunqiao.
They were imprisoned in 1976, tried in 1980, and sentenced in 1981.
www.bartleby.com /65/ga/GangFour.html   (146 words)

  
 Viererbande (China) - netlexikon
Die chinesische Viererbande (四人帮, Pinyin sirenbang) bestand aus Jiang Qing (der Frau von Mao Zedong), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan und Wang Hongwen.
Zhang, Yao und Wang waren Parteiführer in Shanghai.
Yao Wenyuan und Wang Hongwen wurden jeweils zu einer 20-jährigen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Viererbande-%28China%29.html   (558 words)

  
 CBC News: Member of China's Gang of Four dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was released for medical reasons in 1998, and lived quietly.
Jiang and another gang member, Wang Hongwen, are dead.
The status of Yao Wenyuan, released from jail in 1996, is not known.
www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/05/10/china-zhanf050510.html   (371 words)

  
 China Cultural Revolution 1966-1969
Pragmatism gained momentum as a central theme of the years following the Ninth National Party Congress, but this tendency was paralleled by efforts of the radical group to reassert itself.
The radical group--Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen--no longer had Mao's unqualified support.
Directed at young people...Mao, whose power base was in the Chinese army, wanted to reseize control from the bureaucracies that had grown up in education, industrial management and agricultural and economic development and to encourage the continuation of the revolution in Chinese cultural life.
www.onwar.com /aced/data/charlie/china1966.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Gang of Four member passes away - NDTV.com - News on Gang of Four member passes away
Another Gang member, Wang Hongwen, died in 1992.
Yao Wenyuan was released in 1996 and there has been no official word on his status since then.
Zhang and Wang set up a Shanghai Revolutionary Committee that tried to turn China's most prosperous and most Western city into a bastion of Maoist radicalism.
www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Gang+of+Four+member+passes+away&id=72850   (383 words)

  
 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies August 3 in History
Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies August 3 in History
Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1992/august_3_1992_167115.html   (47 words)

  
 Greenhouse Grower: Proven PGRs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The second application also can be made by spraying at a low rate (5 or 10 ppm) for two to three times starting at week eight while tracking plant height.
About the authors: Hongwen Gao is a research associate and Royal D. Heirs, Arthur Cameron, and Will Carlson are professors, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Shi-Ping Wang is a horticulturist at PanAmerican Seed Co., West Chicago, IL 60185.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3930/is_200003/ai_n8900323   (818 words)

  
 Georgia Tech Library :: Bing Wang
Zheng, Nanfeng; Bu,Xianhui; Wang, Bing ; Feng*, Pingyun "Microporous and Photoluminescent Chalcogenide Zeolite Analogs" Science 2002, 298, 2366-2369.
Zhang, Hongwen; Wang, Bing ; Li, Hongtu; Jiang, Yan; Wang, Jingyuan "Synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites of silicon dioxide and polyurethane and epoxy resin interpenetrating network" Polymer International 2003, 52(9), 1493-1495.
Bu, Xianhui; Zheng, Nanfeng; Wang, Xiqing; Wang, Bing ; Feng*, Pingyun "Three-Dimensional Frameworks of Gallium Selenide Supertetrahedral Clusters" Angew.
www.library.gatech.edu /research_help/librarians/wang.html   (140 words)

  
 Last of Gang of Four leaves jail
The two other members of the gang were Wang Hongwen, a radical worker from Shanghai, and Zhang Qunqiao, a propaganda official, also from Shanghai.
In 1981, after the biggest show trial in China's Communist history, Ms Jiang and Mr Zhang were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.
Mr Wang was also sentenced to life imprisonment, while Mr Yao was sent to jail for 20 years.
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/07/wchi07.html   (325 words)

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