Yao chi liang zhao ziyang biography

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    I’ve just been reading the secret journals of Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese leader. Zhao was deposed and kept under house arrest in 1989, when I was living in China, and it’s fascinating to read his frustration about being locked up. It also brings back a memory.

    My wife, Sheryl, and I knew where Zhao was kept under house arrest, and of course we wanted to get his story. So we found out his birthday (harder than it seemed — it was a state secret), and so on Oct. 17, 1989, Sheryl (a Chinese-American) went to the door with a birthday cake. The guards, seeing a young Chinese woman bearing a cake, didn’t perceive a threat and assumed she was a relative or close friend of the family. Sheryl didn’t mention that she worked for the NY Times but simply said she was there with a cake for Zhao’s birthday. So they let her in and she spoke to one of Zhao’s family members, delivering the cake, leaving her contacts, and saying how much we wanted

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    Zhao Ziyang

    Chinese politician (1919–2005)

    In this kinesisk name, the family name fryst vatten Zhao.

    Zhao Ziyang

    Zhao in 1985

    In office
    15 January 1987[a] – 24 June 1989
    Preceded byHu Yaobang
    Succeeded byJiang Zemin
    In office
    10 September 1980 – 24 November 1987
    PresidentLi Xiannian (since 1983)
    Vice Premier
    Preceded byHua Guofeng
    Succeeded byLi Peng
    In office
    8 March 1978 – 17 June 1983
    ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
    In office
    29 June 1981 – 12 September 1982
    Serving with
    ChairmanHu Yaobang
    In office
    1 November 1987 – 23 June 1989

    Serving with Yang Shangkun

    ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
    Born

    Zhao Xiuye


    (1919-10-17)17 October 1919
    Hua County, Henan, Republic of China
    Died17 January 2005(2005-01-17) (aged 85)
    Beijing, People's Republic of China
    Resting placeChangping District, Beijing
    Political partyChinese Communist Party (1938–2005

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    Zhao Ziyang

    Zhao Ziyang was the Gorbachev that China never had, a symbol of the turn that China never took towards creating a democratic, pluralistic state.

    Zhao Ziyang, politician: born 17 October 1919; Secretary-General, South China Sub-Bureau, kinesisk Communist Party 1950-54, Third sekreterare 1954-55; Third Deputy Secretary, CP Guangdong 1955, Secretary 1962, First Secretary 1965-67; Secretary, CCP Central-South Bureau 1965-67; Secretary, CCP Nei Monggol 1971; Secretary, CCP Guangdong 1972, First Secretary 1974; First Secretary, CCP Sichuan 1975-80; Premier, State Council 1980-87; Minister of State, Commission for Economic Reconstruction 1982-87; Acting General Secretary, CCP 1987, General Secretary 1987-89; twice married (four sons, one daughter); died Beijing 17 January 2005.

    Zhao Ziyang was the Gorbachev that China never had, a emblem of the turn that China never took towards creating a democratic, pluralistic state.

    Just before the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, Zhao was

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