Jiang Qing, Mao's Widow, Dies; Was Among `the Gang of Four'

The Washington Post | June 5, 1991| | Copyright

Jiang Qing, 77, the widow of China's Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung who fell from power after her husband's death and was jailed as a counterrevolutionary for her role in the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, committed suicide May 14 at her villa in Beijing.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency announced the death yesterday, but did not say how Jiang had taken her life. On Monday, the government refused to confirm a report in Time magazine that she had hanged herself.

Once one of the most powerful figures in China, Jiang had been a member of the ruling Politburo, and she was one of ...

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