Yao Wenyuan

Yao Wenyuan
▪ 2006

      Chinese propaganda official (b. 1931, Zhuji, Zhejiang province, China—d. Dec. 23, 2005, Shanghai, China?), was the last surviving member of the Gang of Four, a radical communist group that gained great political power during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and helped implement many of the revolution's harsh policies. Other members of the group were Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, and Mao Zedong's third wife, Jiang Qing. Yao, a journalist, became a member of the group after he wrote a famous attack of a play by Wu Han, Hai Jui Dismissed from Office, in 1965. The article, which launched a fierce debate among the Chinese elite over who supported Mao and who opposed him, was said to mark the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Yao served as the group's propagandist. After Mao's death in 1976, he was arrested, and he was eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison. Released in 1996, he returned to Shanghai, where he was reportedly working on his memoirs at the time of his death. China's official news agency did not specify where he died.

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