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Chiang Ch'ing

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Chiang Ch'ing: see Jiang Qing Jiang Qing or Chiang Ch'ing , 1914–91, Chinese Communist political leader, wife of Mao Zedong. Born Li Yun-ho, she changed her name to Lan Ping in 1938 when beginning an acting career, joining the Communist party the same year.
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Jiang Qing

 or Chiang Ch'ing orig. Li Jinhai

(born 1914?, Zhucheng, Shandong, China—died May 14, 1991, Beijing) Third wife of Mao Zedong and member of the radical Gang of Four. Jiang married Mao in the 1930s but entered politics only in the 1960s. As first deputy head of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang acquired far-reaching powers over China's cultural life and oversaw the total suppression of a wide variety of traditional cultural activities. Arrested after Mao's death and accused of fomenting the widespread civil unrest that characterized the Cultural Revolution, she refused to confess guilt and received a suspended death sentence that was commuted to life imprisonment. Her death was reported as a suicide.


Jiang Qing, Chiang Ch'ing
1913--91, Chinese Communist actress and politician; widow of Mao Tse-tung. She was a leading member of the Gang of Four


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Canadian Tracy Dahl's appearance late in Act II, as Chiang Ch'ing, lit up the stage as she sang "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung
 
 
 
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