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- <text id=91TT1343>
- <title>
- June 17, 1991: Death Confirmed:Jiang Qing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 17, 1991 The Gift Of Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 79
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- <p> DEATH CONFIRMED. Jiang Qing, 77, widow of Mao Zedong who
- wielded vast and malevolent power in the last decade of Mao's
- life; last month, by her own hand; in Beijing. Reported in last
- week's issue of TIME, her death was later confirmed by the
- official Chinese news agency. A Shanghai stage and film actress,
- Jiang met and captivated Mao in the late 1930s, leading him to
- abandon his second wife. Jiang emerged from the shadows in 1966
- to become a scolding, polemical leader of Mao's Cultural
- Revolution. In 1980, after the rise of Deng Xiaoping, she and
- three allies (known as the Gang of Four) were tried for
- "conspiring to subvert the government." Jiang explained, "I was
- Chairman Mao's dog. Whomever he told me to bite, I bit." She
- received a death sentence in 1981, which was commuted to life
- imprisonment.
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- </body></article>
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