Zhang Chunqiao and Radical Ideology

Zhang Chunqiao and Radical Ideology

Zhang Chunqiao

Emerging as a leading ultra-leftist theoretician during the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Chunqiao mobilized Shanghai labor forces and served on the Politburo Standing Committee. He championed the dictatorship of the proletariat and radical mass movements before being arrested and tried with the Gang of Four.

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Year Zhang Chunqiao
1917
Birth of Zhang Chunqiao (Period: February 1, 1917, Location: Hexia City, Shandong Province, Republic of China (now Juye County, Heze, Shandong, China))
1937
Second Sino-Japanese War (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1937–1945, Location: Various regions in China)
1949
Reporting and Propaganda Activities for Liberation Daily and Other Outlets (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1949 onwards, Location: Shanghai, China)
1958
Publication of "Break the Idea of Bourgeois Rights" (Age: 41 years old, Period: October 1958, Location: Shanghai, China (Article Publication))
1966
Joining the Central Cultural Revolution Group (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1966, Location: Beijing, China)
1967
Establishment of the Shanghai People's Commune and Shanghai Power Seizure Movement (Age: 49 years old, Period: January–February 1967, Location: Shanghai, China)
Assuming Office as Director of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee (Zhang Chunqiao, Age: 50 years old, Period: February 1967, Location: Shanghai, China)
1973
Assuming Office as Member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Politburo (Zhang Chunqiao, Age: 55 years old, Period: 1973, Location: Beijing, China)
1975
Assuming Office as Vice Premier of the State Council (Zhang Chunqiao, Age: 57 years old, Period: January 1975, Location: Beijing, China)
1977
Expulsion from Party and Removal from Public Office (Zhang Chunqiao, Age: 60 years old, Period: July 1977, Location: Beijing, China)
1980
Public Hearing of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-revolutionary Cliques Incident (Trial of the Gang of Four, Age: 63 years old, Period: November 1980 – January 1981, Location: Beijing, China)
1998
Release on Medical Grounds (Age: 80 years old, Period: 1998, Location: Shanghai, China)
2005
Death of Zhang Chunqiao (Age: 88 years old, Period: April 21, 2005 (aged 88))
Unknown
Marriage (Zhang Chunqiao, Details Unknown, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)

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