Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Tiananmen Incident (1976)
On the Mao’s China map as “Tiananmen, April 1976”
4–5 Apr 1976 — Huge crowds mark the Qingming festival for the dead by laying wreaths and poems for Zhou Enlai in Tiananmen Square. Many of the poems attack Jiang Qing and her allies. On the night of the 5th, militia and police use clubs to clear the square. The Politburo calls the gathering counter-revolutionary and strips Deng Xiaoping of his posts.
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- Death and legacy of Mao Zedong (chapter 12 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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