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Tools Yao Wenyuan was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang, to an intellectual family. His father, Yao Pengzi (姚蓬子) was a

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writer, translator and art critic.[1]
Related changes He began his career in Shanghai as a literary critic, where he became known for his sharp attacks against
Special pages colleagues, such as in June 1957 against the newspaper Wenhuibao. Since that time, he began to closely Born January 12, 1931
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collaborate with leftist Shanghai politicians, including the head of the city's Propaganda Department,
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Zhang Chunqiao. His article "On the New Historical Beijing Opera 'Hai Rui Dismissed from Office' ",
Cite this page Died December 23, 2005 (aged 74)
Wikidata item published in Wenhuibao on November 10, 1965, launched the Cultural Revolution.
Shanghai, People’s Republic
The article was about a popular opera by Wu Han, who was deputy mayor of Beijing. Zhang Chunqiao and of China
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Jiang Qing feared the play could be counter-revolutionary because parallels could be drawn between the Occupation politician
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characters in the play and officials in the communist government. In the play, Hai Rui, a government Known for Gang of Four
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official, speaks for the peasants against the imperial government, criticizing officials for hypocritically
Languages oppressing the masses while pretending to be virtuous men. Hai Rui is dismissed because of this. Yao Yao Wenyuan
Deutsch claimed it was a coded attack on Mao for dismissing in 1959 then-minister of defense Peng Dehuai, a critic Chinese 姚文元
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Confused by this unexpected attack, Beijing's party leadership tried to protect Wu Han, providing Mao the
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pretext for a full-scale "struggle" against them in the following year. Yao was soon promoted to the Cultural Revolution Group.
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Русский Yao Wenyuan was an ideal candidate for the criticism for such an opera because of his consistent socialist background. In April 1969 he joined the
Suomi Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, working on official propaganda. A member of "Proletarian writers for purity" he
Tiếng Việt was the editor of "Liberation Daily" Shanghai's main newspaper. He joined the state's efforts to rid China's writers union of the famous writer Hu
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Feng.
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On October 6, 1976, he was arrested for his participation in the Cultural Revolution and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1981. He was
Edit links released on October 5, 1996, and spent the remainder of his life writing a book and studying Chinese history. He lived in his hometown of Shanghai
and became the last surviving member of the Gang of Four after Zhang Chunqiao died in April 2005. According to China's official Xinhua news
agency, he died of diabetes on December 23, 2005, aged 74.[2][3]

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1. ^ "Yao Wenyuan" . The Economist. 12 January 2006. Retrieved 2018-05-01.

2. ^ Barboza, David (7 January 2006). "Yao Wenyuan obituary in the New York Times" . New York Times. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
3. ^ "Last surviving member of China's Gang of Four dies" Archived July 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

Publications [ edit ]

Yao Wen-yuan: On the Social Basis Of The Lin Piao Antiparty Clique. Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1975.

External links [ edit ]

The Yao Wenyuan Archive at the Marxist Internet Archive.

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