Wang Dongxing

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Dongxing
汪东兴 (汪東興)

Personal details
Born	January 1916 Yiyang County, Jiangxi, China
Died	August 21, 2015 (aged 99) Beijing, China
Political party	Communist Party of China

Wang Dongxing (January 1916 – 21 August 2015) was a Chinese politician who was Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1977 to 1980 after being Mao Zedong's principal bodyguard during the Cultural Revolution.

Early life and military service

Wang was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi on January 1, 1916 and joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1932 in his youth. He was commander of the 8341 Special Regiment, Mao's personal elite bodyguard force, but was dismissed by Chairman Mao for excessive protection, and sent to a labor reform camp. He later was reinstated. Wang was instrumental in the coup d'état against the Gang of Four immediately after Mao's death. He was prominent under Chairman Hua Guofeng, being Party Vice Chairman and one of the five members of the Politburo Standing Committee, a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 11 and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Later years

He lost power as Deng Xiaoping rose to supreme power and was deprived of all his posts in the early 1980s. As a gesture both to his role in the coup d’etat and to signal that political foes would no longer be persecuted, Wang was elected to the very last alternate position of the CPC Central Committee at the 12th National Congress in 1982.

Wang died on 21 August 2015 in Beijing at the age of 99 (100 according to Chinese tradition).^[1]

Sources

The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Li Zhisui, Arrow Books 1996
Mao's Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Harvard University Press 2006.

References

↑ "汪东兴同志逝世". Xinhua News Agency. Retrieved 2015-08-21.

The Cultural Revolution

Major events	Socialist Education Movement Lushan Conference Down to the Countryside Movement February Countercurrent Wuhan Incident 9th Party Congress Project 571 Barefoot doctor 10th Party Congress Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius Tiananmen Incident 3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee

Key figures	Mao Zedong Liu Shaoqi Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Gang of Four (Jiang Qing Zhang Chunqiao Yao Wenyuan Wang Hongwen) Peng Dehuai Wu Han Peng Zhen Tao Zhu Chen Boda Wang Dongxing Xie Fuzhi Ji Dengkui Wang Li Qi Benyu Wu Faxian Qiu Huizuo Yang Chengwu Chen Zaidao Kang Sheng Mao Yuanxin Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying

Documents	Bombard the Headquarters Quotations from Chairman Mao Hai Rui Dismissed from Office Learn from Daqing in industry

Concepts	Four Olds Struggle session Feudal fascism Two Whatevers Big-character poster One Divides Into Two Democracy Wall Eight model plays Scar literature Capitalist roader

Groups	Red Guards Five Man Group Cultural Revolution Group Central Case Examination Group Central Organization and Propaganda Leading Group Revolutionary committee Shanghai People's Commune 8341 Special Regiment Sent-down youth 61 Renegades

Related topics	Maoism Great Leap Forward Class struggle Sino-Soviet split Ultra-Leftism Peaceful Evolution theory

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 78021647 LCCN: n95013507 ISNI: 0000 0000 6394 3242 GND: 129406708 BNF: cb16637299s (data) NLA: 36669215

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