Yang Shangkun

Yang Shangkun
/yahng" shahng"koohn"/
born 1907, Chinese Communist leader: president since 1988.

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▪ 1999

      Chinese revolutionary figure and politician who was a veteran of Mao Zedong's Long March in 1934-35, in 1966 became a victim of Mao's Cultural Revolution and was sent to prison for 12 years, and then regained power, serving as president from 1988 to 1993; in 1989, under instruction from national leader Deng Xiaoping, Yang gave the order for the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrators that ended in a massacre (b. 1907, Shuangjiang, Sichuan province, China—d. Sept. 14, 1998, Beijing, China).

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