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REpRiNTs SEaks 0 • iN CONTEMpORARY '' AsiAN STUdiEs I a' NUMBER 3- 1981 (40) ?1'

SYMPOSIUM: THE TRIAL OF THE,

'" AND ITS 0 IMPLICATION IN I 0• Edited by James C. Hsiung, with :::ontributions by H. Lyman Miller, ~ungdah Chiu and Lillian Craig Har­ ris, Documents prepared by Hungdah :::hiu Occasional Papers/Reprint Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

General Editor: Hungdah Chiu Executive Editor: David Salem Managing Editor: Shirley Lay

Editorial Advisory Board Professor Robert A. Scalapino, University of California at Berkeley Professor Martin Wilbur, Columbia University Professor Gaston J. Sigur, George Washington University Professor Shao-chuan Leng, University of Virginia Professor Lawrence W. Beer, University of Colorado Professor James Hsiung, New York University Dr. Robert Heuser, Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law at Heidelberg Dr. Lih-wu , Political Science Association of the Republic of China Professor K. P. Misra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Professor J. S. Prybyla, The Pennsylvania University Professor Toshio Sawada, Sophia University, Japan Published with the cooperation of the Maryland International Law Society. All contributions (in English only) and communications should be sent to Professor Hungdah Chiu, University of Maryland School of Law, 500 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 USA. All publications in this series reflect only the views of the authors. While the editor accepts responsibility for the selection of materials to be published, the individual author is responsible for statements of facts and expressions of opmion contained therein. Subscription is US $10.00 for 8 issues (regardless of the price of individual issues I in the and Canada and $12.00 for overseas. Check should be addresSE:d to OPRSCAS and sent to Professor Hungdah Chiu. Price for single copy of this issue: US $2.00 Symposium: The Trial of the uGang of Four" and Its Implication In China

Edited by JAMES C. HsiUNG, Documents Prepared by HUNGDAH CHIU

CONTENTS Introduction (James C. Hsiung) ...... 1 Chapter I The Cultural in the Dock: The Trials in Political Perspective (H. Lyman Mil- ler) ...... 5 Chapter II Certain Legal Aspects of the Recent Peking Trials of the "Gang of Four" and Others (Hungdah Chiu) ...... 27 Chapter III Images and Reality: Human Rights and the Trial of the Gang of Four (Lillian Craig Harris) 40 Documents (Prepared by Hungdah Chiu) ...... 57 Document I Indictment of the Special Procuratorate Under the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China ...... 58 Document II Written Judgment of the Special Court Under the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China ...... 83 Document III Chinese Version of the Indictment ...... 101 Document IV Chinese Version of the Judgment ...... 111 About the Editor and Contributors ...... 118

Syposium: The Trial of The uGang of Four" and Its Implications in China

INTRODUCTION

By James C. Hsiumg

The recent trial in Peking of the so-called ""Gang of Four," including Zedong's widow, , is probably the most significant political development in China since Mao's death in 1976, and is likely to have far-reaching effects on China's internal politics and foreign policy. The trial, held from November 20 to December 29, 1980, is important for a number of reasons. It symbolized, first of all, the formal reversal of the course into which the People's Republic had been launched since Mao's of 1966-1976. Second, if during the Maoist in the late we had heard only the accusers' version against the purged "revisionists," now for the first time we were able to hear the former victims - since then rehabilitated - speak out against their Cultural persecutors, who, in an ironic reversal of history, were on trial in late 1980. Third, from the revelations by Peking's current leaders and the "confessions" of the former radicals during the trial process, the outside world was able to gain new insights into the nature and workings of politics in the Chinese Communist system. In addition, the specific ways in which the trial was conceived and conducted, some of which were highly contrived and improvised, are also worth studying, as they serve to enhance our understanding of Chinese politics as a whole. Although the trial of the "Gang of Four" has been viewed in and outside of China as having been prompted by the revengeful and self-serving motives of Peking's present leaders, which is probably very true, the trial can be studied for its larger meanings. In the first place, the trial process was certainly educational in that it was staged to redirect China's official ideology by expunging the discredited ideology identified with the former ultra-Maoist radicals. The seriousness with which the campaign was launched bespeaks the continuing primacy of ideology as an unwritten code to be internal-

(1) 2 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STuDIES SERIES ized and practiced by all Chinese. The "correct" ideological line being promoted now is best summed up in Xiaoping's dictum that "truth is to be tested through practice," which is to replace the ultra-Maoist romanticism of the "Gang of Four." (Equally discredited was the "whateverism" laid to another group of Maoists not associated with the "Gang ·of -Four': who briefly had in 1976-1978 claimed that "whatever Chairman Mao had said or done was correct.") To discredit the radicals was, therefore, also to discredit the particular ideology and policy line that they had stood for when they were in power from 1966 to 1976. In this sense, the trial was more than a power struggle; it was simultaneously an ideological struggle. Second, the of the radicals and their brand of was a campaign almost exclusively engineered at the top, with the Chinese masses being called upon merely to ratify what the present leadership in Peking had done and to endorse the latter's wishes. If this is indicative of anything, Chinese politics remains elite­ dominated, no matter what others may claim. The flow of political information and action starts from the top, constituting "input" into the political system, while the participation (qua endorsement and implementation) by the Chinese public is the "output," reversing the input-output process postulated by Western political scientists for a political system. Third, the much-publicized debates surrounding the trial were meant to arouse public attention regarding the ideological shift noted above. These, however, were elite-sponsored debates, the purpose of which was not to involve the public in working out a solution or policy through debating the issues, as is often done in the West, but rather to drum up mass support to stamp out all residues of the Reign of the Radicals. Fourth, 'the political significance intended (such as re-educating the Chinese nation on the right ideological course and policy line to pursue) was more important than the legal significance of the trial proceedings (such as bringing the criminals to justice). Here one finds confirmation of the motto "Politics must take command", which Mao himself had made famous, although it is officially played down now. Fifth, in view of the results of the trial, which apparently fell short of the original expectations of the Deng group, Peking is today - perhaps as before - ruled by a coalition, albeit one with the Deng group anchored in the center. The many twists and turns accompany­ ing the course of the trial are probably symptomatic of the leadership disarray or the instability characterizing the leadership coalition in Peking today. The monolithic model- that one strongman such as THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 3

Deng Xiaoping is in absolute control - probably cannot explain the much more complex and fluid political reality in China. Finally, there was much "ad hoc-ishness" or improvisation in the way the Peking trial was conducted, which is also quite typical of Chinese politics and to some extent remotely reminiscent of the typical Maoist despise for routinization and standardization. One example was the combination in the trial of the "Gang of Four" and six former military associates of the disgraced Biao, possibly to use the latter group's alleged assassination plot against Mao as a thin shield to protect Mao from being implicated in the sinister charges leveled at his widow and her three top aides. Another example of improvisation was the deliberate omission of Premier 's role in the bloody purge of Shaoqi, the former chief of state accused of being China's No. 1 "revisionist" during the Cultural Revolution. Equally, the ommission of 's role in the Tienanmen Square Incident of April 5, 1976, now exclusively attributed to the "Gang of Four," was also a necessary contrivance to save Hua's skin, at least in that one incident, although the effects of the trial as a whole were detrimental to Hua's career. The special tribunal set up to hear and conduct the trial proceedings was also an ad hoc contrivance. Composed of previous victims of the "Gang of Four" purges of the 1960s and established by order of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the special tribunal actually had no legal basis in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. Although the trial of the "Gang of Four" is technically over, the campaign to discredit their particular brand of Chinese and their remnant supporters - many of them probably now hiding in the closet - will most certainly continue for a long time to come. The three articl~s assembled in this symposium are meant to review the various aspects of the trial and to assess their implications for China beyond the end of ultra-Maoist radicalism. The one by Dr. Lyman Miller deals with the political aspects of the campaign against the radicals. Following that is an inquiry by Professor Hungdah Chiu into the legal aspects and implications of the trial. Dr. Lillian Craig Harris in her study approaches the purge of Jiang Qing and her associates from the human-rights angle. Together, they provide a good expose of the lessons that one can learn from the trial as the culmination of the purge of radicalism in post-Mao China. The selected primary documents, appended at the end of the collection, will provide additional details of the accusers' version of that purge. When read against the literature turned out during the Cultural 4 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

Revolution by the radicals, these should round out the picture of a prolonged struggle between the radicals and the "revisionists," in which this time the "revisionists" won. Postscript: Subsequent to the above writing, the long-awaited sixth plenum of the Central Committee CCC) of the (CCP) was convened on -29, 1981. The results from the session brought the momentum built up during the "Gang of Four" trial to its logical extension. Hua Guofeng, Mao's hand-picked sucessor, was officially removed and demoted to the position of one of the Party's Vice Chairmen. More important, Mao's historical place was finally relegated to that of a brilliant revolution­ ary leader but ignominious ruler. A CC resolution adopted at the plenum credited Mao for his "indelible meritorious service" in bringing the CCP to power, but severely criticized him for having committed "theoretical and practical mistakes" as China's leader between 1949 and 1976. The greatest errors were made, it declared, during the Cultural Revolution, causing China "the most severe setbacks and heaviest losses." In the four years since came back to power in 1977, , who had been purged twice by Mao for ideological deviations, has carefully built a sufficiently wide-based coalition to push through his modernization programs and to remove Hua from the Party's chairmanship. Although Yaobang, a protege, was made to replace Hua as the new Chairman, Deng will most probably remain as the country's ruler. The more pragmatic brand of socialism fashioned by Deng is most likely to dominate in the People's Republic of China (PRC) for the immediate future. Although the retention of Hua Guofeng as a lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and a junior Politburo member and the less-than-total denunciation of Mao were compromises between the Deng group and the others among top Party leaders, Deng and his associates have emerged from the sixth plenum much stronger than before. Their latest victory was the crowning event for a prolonged and carefully calculated campaign to eliminate diehard Maoists from state, Party, and military bureaucracies. The trial and conviction of the "Gang of Four" was the culmination of that campaign. The significance of the trial, as Deng's reversal of Mao's Cultural Revolution, has thus been further illuminated by the latest developments in the PRC. All the essays in this symposium were written before the landmark sixth plenum, but the developments were mostly antici­ pated by the authors. We have decided to let the essays stand as originally written. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 5 Chapter I

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE DOCK: THE TRIALS IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

By H. Lyman Miller*

The opening of criminal trials of the Cultural Revolution's surviving leftist elite in on November 20, 1980 was by any account a political spectacle, even judging by the standards of a country whose political history over the previous two decades has routinely provided the makings of high political drama. For the first time in PRC history disgraced members of the CCP's highest leadership were now on public trial for a long list of sensational crimes, including attempts to assassinate and to foment armed in China's largest city. For several weeks the trials' almost daily proceedings dominated China's media, as the press frontpaged accounts of each day's events and Chinese radio and television carried long taped excerpts of each day's testimony. For the first time in four years, pictures of Mao's widow Jiang Qing returned to the pages of People's Daily. Virtually the last time her picture had appeared in the party's daily newspaper had been in September 1976, when she was portrayed as the deceased chairman's grieving widow and loyal student; now she appeared on the People's Daily's front page as the condemned "principal conspirator" of a vicious counterrevolu­ tionary clique. The opening of the public trials of the "gang of four" and the surviving associates of , nevertheless, was only the latest spectacular political event in a year which had already witnessed several other dramatic political happenings. The trials' opening was thus preceded in the same year by the posthumous rehabilitation and political exoneration of Mao's most important antagonist and the Cultural Revolution's highest victim, , in the spring. Hua Guofeng was replaced by Ziyang as State Council premier amid a surge of reformist political rhetoric at the Fifth National People's Congress (NPC) third session the following September. Shortly after the trials opened, moreover, indications in the Beijing press lent credence to rumors alive in the Chinese capital that Mao's heir Hua

* The views expressed here are those of the author's. 6 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

Guofeng had been forced to resign as party chairman, pending formal approval at an upcoming sixth plenum of the party Central Committee.1 Clearly, in the context of the sweeping political changes already in motion as they opened, the trials' undeniably sensational character must be placed in the perspective of the equally remarkable political events of that year. As most observers of the Chinese scene have concluded, all of these political events of 1980 appear to have been the successful culmination of efforts by party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping. The trials of the Cultural Revolution Leftist elite, together with the posthumous rehabilitation of Liu Shaoqi and the apparent political demise of Hua Guofing, have thus been seen as part of Deng's relentless efforts to transform both the style of politics in the PRC and the substantive direction of the regime policies. This paper attempts to assess the broad political significance of Deng's efforts to open public trials of the "gang of four" and Lin Biao's associates from the broader perspective of his overall reformist political program as it has emerged in the last three or four years, and to evalutate the extent to which the results of the trials has advanced his goals. Specifically, Deng Xiaoping appears to have had two interrelated aims in pressing for the opening of public trials of the Cultural Revolution left. First, the public trials contributed to his drive to transform the CCP into a more suitable instrument for guiding the rapid, all-out modernization of China, both by furthering his efforts . to repudiate the ideology and politics of the Cultural Revolution decade and by opening the way for a more thorough purge of the party's ranks swollen by leftist members recruited in that period. Second, in providing a vivid, concrete example of the application of socialist law to persons who were once among the CCP's highest leadership, the trials were intended to be a dram tic symbol of Deng's efforts to establish the regime's permanent commitment to the supremacy of law and institutional procedure as the arbiter of political conflict in the future, a reliable guarantee that political and social conflict born out of the process of modernization would not again escalate into a new Cultural Revolution. Deng Xiaoping's success in achieving these twin goals as the trials closed in early 1981, however, seems in doubt. Political controversies generated by the trials themselves, erupting in the midst of a major shift in the political climate in Beijing away from

1. (Editor's note) Hua's resignation was accepted by the Party's Central Committee and announced on June 29, 1981. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 7

Deng because of other, unrelated issues, seemed to prevent conclusion of the trials in a manner unambiguously favorable to Deng Xiaop­ ing's goals. As the trials progressed, Deng's two interrelated aims in opening them seemed increasingly to contradict rather than comple­ ment each other, as his short-run aim of using the trials to discredit the Cultural Revolution seemed to poison the legalistic atmosphere so essential to his long-term goal of establishing law, and not political expedience, as the final criterion for judging acceptable political action. Accordingly it seems doubtful, at this early writing, that the trials will be remembered in China as a triumph of law over political criminality and as a watershed submission of the party and its politics to higher, state defined standards of permissible political conduct, than simply as Deng's personal political vendetta against his most vicious political antagonists.

Deng Xiaoping's Goals Deng Xiaoping's efforts to transform the style and substance of politics in China since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 have repeatedly placed him at the center of political controversy in Beijing. Finding support among a broad coalition of veteran leaders in the Chinese hierarchy, Deng has relentlessly maintained the political initiative in attempting to bring about fundamental changes in Chinese politics, despite evident setbacks periodically in the past four years. Convinced of the need for rapid Chinese modernization in a tense international environment, Deng has been in the forefront of China's leadership in stressing the corresponding necessity of drastic political reform, both in Chinese society and most particularly in the CCP itself, to accompany modernization in other areas. Deng Xiaoping's political reform program has been extensive in scope and radical in nature. With respect to political life in the CCP, its main features include the following: (1) A more flexible interpretation of the principles of ­ Leninism as they apply to the concrete realities of Chinese mod­ ernization in the current stage, leading in particular to an overall depoliticization of economic, social and cultural activity in Chinese society; (2) The firm reassertion of the party's organizational rules and institutions as the ultimate arbiter of authority in party politics, rather than an appeal to the will and wisdom of an infallible charismatic leader above a party organization whose legitimacy is subject to routine challenge; and 8 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STumEs SERIES

(3) The cultivation of a party membership competent to admi­ nister and guide an increasingly complex and technologically adv­ anced society, recruited and evaluated according to managerial and technical criteria rather than standards of rigorous ideological purity or political expertise in areas such as "waging class struggle." In pressing these interrelated concerns, Deng Xiaoping has led the way among the current leadership in attacking the political style and ideological foundations of politics prevailing during the Cultural Revolutionary years of 1966-1976, the last decade of Mao Zedong's life. Deng's challenge to the "Maoist" politics of the Cultural Revolution decade has come in four broad areas. First, Deng has attempted to abrogate the supreme status of Mao Zedong Thought as the sole doctrine conferring legitimacy on political behavior and policy. Where Mao Zedong Thought during the Cultural Revolution years had been enshrined as the unique wisdom of Marxism­ Lenisnism's greatest modem inheritor and innovator, Mao Zedong Thougth now is portrayed only as Mao's "crystallization" of the " wisdom" of the party's veteran leadership through the · CCP's revolutionary period, a doctrine which corresponded brilliantly to the demands of the Chinese revolutionary situation of the time but not necessarily to the present. Deng's vanguard effort to bring about this ideological trans­ formation, of course, was the campaign to "take practice as the sole criterion of truth."1a Taking Mao's Yanan slogan of "seeking truth from facts" as its keynote, this study movement implicitly challenged the supreme legitimizing authority of Mao's doctrines by arguing that an ideology's truth must be assessed solely by the extent to which it provides correct interpretations of current political and social realities and leads to the formulation of correct policy. The principles of Mao Zedong Thought, the "practice" campaign implied, should be retained where they correctly correspond to current Chinese realities; they should be discarded where they do not. Since Deng finally achieved an authoritative leadership consensus endors­ ing the "practice" campaign and its implications in the summer of 1979, Chinese political commentary has become increasingly explicit

1a. For the inauguration of the "practice" campaign, see the contributing commentator article, "Practice Is the Sole Criterion of Truth," Guangming ribao, May 11, 1978, pp. 1-2, and the speech by Deng Xiaoping to the PLA conference on political work, Renmin ribao, June 6, 1978, pp. 1-2; an English translation of Deng's speech appears in Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Report-PRC (hereafter cited as FBIS-PRCl, June 6, 1978. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 9 about the relative merits and limitations of Mao's thought. One important commentary in the party's theoretical journal Flag very recently observed, for example, that Mao Zedong Thought represents the crystallized body of correct ideas of the party leadership up until 1957, which must be distinguished from Mao's erroneous ideas after that year, when the chairman became in­ creasingly divorced from the realities and demands of China's development. 2 This delineation between Mao's correct guidance of the CCP during the earlier parts of his career from his erroneous ideas in the later years of his life points to a second major area in which Deng has challenged the politics of the Cultural Revolution years - the reinterpretation and rewriting of authoritative party history. In this regard Deng Xiaoping has pressed hard for a formal, authoritative resolution by the party critically evaluating Mao's leadership of the party in the last years of his life and repudiating the politics and policies of the Cultural Revolution decade. As commentary in the press arguing the necessity for such a formal statement on party history has suggested, authoriative judgment on such historical questions would parallel a similar authoritative reckoning on questions of party history at the party's 1945 7th Congress and is crucial for defending the longterm legitimacy of the current regime's policies and line.3 Just as the 7th CCP Congress' historical resolution had authoritatively interpreted the history of Mao Zedong's triumph over Wang Ming for leadership of the party over the preceding fifteen years, the new party history resolution would sum up authoritatively the deviations and errors in Mao's leadership after 1957. While the specific judgments to be incorporated into such a formal party resolution have undoubtedly been the object of persistent leadership contention, the communique of the Fifth Plenum suggested that the party's Twelfth Congress would be convened ahead of schedule to resolve the "important ideological and theoretic­ al problems" involved in such a historical resolution. 4 Clearly connected to Deng's effort to bring about a formal party condemnation of leftist deviations in the party's work after 1957, and

2. Editorial department article, "Correctly Understand the Situation and Policy, Firmly Uphold the Four Basic Principles," Hongqi 1981 No. 5, pp. 2-11; FBIS-PRC, March 25, 1981. 3. See e.g., the contributing commentator article, "Unite and Look Ahead," Renmin ribao, January 18, 1979, p. 1. 4. "Communique of the 11th CCP 5th Plenum," Renmin ribao, March 1, 1981, pp. 1-2. 10 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES particularly of the Cultural Revolution itself, has been the piecemeal "reversal of verdicts" on the entire range of events, policies, and personalities repudiated over the same period under Mao Zedong's leadership. This effort has proceeded steadily over the past three years, including the landmark exoneration of Mao's outspoken antagonist from the Great Leap years, Dehuai, at the 1978 Third Plenum and culminating in the politically spectacular return to political honor of Liu Shaoqi last year.5 Deng's efforts to dilute the authority of Maoist dogma and to establish an authoritative party repudiation of the Cultural Revolu­ tion years relate in concrete application to his efforts to undertake a more thorough purge of the party apparatus of cadres who were recruited into the party during those years, the third broad area in which Deng has attempted to reverse the politics of the Cultural Revolution. The CCP's membership doubled over the decade from 1966 to 1976, increasing from around 18 million members to over 38 million. Most of those admitted to the party during that period were recruited according to the highly politicized criteria of the Cultural Revolution and presumably they remain committed to the ideological principles pre-eminent during those years. As press commentary associated with Deng has pointed out, such cadres constitute a hidden threat to the long term implementation of the leadership's current policies and must be removed for the sake of future political stability.6 Just as commentary stressing the importance of a formal party judgment on the Cultural Revolution years looks back to the 7th CCP Congress' resolution on the history of Mao's Yanan triumph over Wang Ming, commentary pressing a wider purge of leftists from the party apparatus similarly cites the precedent of Mao's Yanan rectification drive to purge the CCP's ranks of followers recruited into the party under Wang Ming's leadership- a model which ironically would now be used to remove party members still loyal to Mao and his political legacy itself.

5. For 's rehabilitation, see Renmin ribaa, December 25, 1978, pp. 1-3; on Liu Shaoqi's rehabilitation, see Renmin ribaa, May 18, 1980, pp. 1-2. 6. Deng Xiaoping's earliest efforts to expand the purge against leftist cadres were reflected in Jiefangjun baa articles in early 1978 which were thereafter reprinted in Renmin ribaa. See Dao Nin, "A First Analysis of the Masks of'Wind Faction' Figures," Renmin ribao, January 6, 1978, p. 2, Jin Ge, "Painting A Picture of"Slipaway" Faction People," Renmin ribaa, January 10, 1978, p. 2, and Shang Gong, "Advice to Persons of the 'Earthquake' Faction- Give Up Your Bad Ways and Do Right," Jiefangjun baa, January 15, 1978, as transmitted by Xinhua Chinese service on January 17, 1978 and translated in FBIS-PRC, January 18, 1978. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 11

Finally, the last aspect in which Deng has challenged the politics of the Cultural Revolution decade has been his assertion of the ultimate authority of the party's organizational rules and institution­ al procedures. Where during the Cultural Revolution Maoist doc­ trines permitted the masses and party activists to "kick aside" party committees and institutions whenever such party organs inhibited the spontaneous and progressive will of the popular masses, party members must now advance the demands of the masses through prescribed party channels and mechanisms. Deng's efforts to regula­ rize party activity are embodied in the "Guiding Principles for Inner-Party Political Life," promulgated by the February 1980 Fifth Plenum and, together with the revised party constitution draft approved at the same party meeting, circulated throughout the party ranks thereafter as the focus of party study and rectification. 7 Reinforcing the authority of party rules and organizational discipline in party political life has been the re-establishment of party discipline inspection committees at various levels of the party apparatus, as prescribed by the party's Third Plenum in December 1978.8 Complementing these efforts to reassert the final authority of the party organization itself, Deng has attempted to make compensating modifications in the party's workstyle. Deng has thus led the way in stressing the "democratic" aspects of in party life. Deng in this regard has called for a more style and an end to more dictatorial styles of leadership and the "system of lifetime tenure" in leadership positions. Deng Xiaoping's broad efforts to reform political life within the CCP have been complemented by attempts to bring about similar reforms in Chinese society as well. Paralleling his efforts to induce greater intraparty democracy and to assert the ultimate authority of the party's organizational rules and procedures, Deng has similarly pressed for greater "democracy" within Chinese society at large, for a strengthened socialist legal system, and for a greater separation of party and state activities. The most outstanding examples of Deng's efforts to promote greater democracy within Chinese society have been the "" movement at "Democracy Wall" in the capital, which blossomed from an otherwise typical wallposter . . . . .

7. "Communique of the 11th CCP 5th Plenum," supra note 4. 8. "Communique of the 11th CCP 3rd Plenum," Renmin ribcro, December 24, 1978, pp. 1-2. 12 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES campaign preceding the party's Third Plenum and which Deng defended in its early stages, and the third session of the Fifth NPC in September 1980, which the Beijing press went to great lengths to portray as a model of genuinely democratic deliberation and consultation.9 Similarly, Deng Xiaoping appears to be the foremost supporter among the leadership of efforts to democratize election procedures in lower-level government and ·mass organization bodies, including calls for secret ballots on slates naming more than single candidates for any one office. At the same time calls for strengthening China's legal system and for the rigorous, universal application of law to all criminal behavior, regardless of political intent, have been staples of Dengist political rhetoric. The Fifth NPC's second session in June 1979 revived a 20-year old effort to set down a body of legal codes which had been stalled by political contention among the leadership through the Cultural Revolution years, and subsequent meetings of the NPC and its Standing Committee have continued the process. 10 Political commentary in the Beijing press has in the meantime illustrated the theme that "everyone is equal before the law" with examples of legal action taken against instances of corruption and bureaucratic malfeasance among party and state cadres at various levels.U And finally, Deng has pressed for a greater separation of party and state powers, together with an overall depoliticization of normal government activity in the PRC. Arguing that the experience of the Cultural Revolution has demostrated conclusively that the party's "usurpation" of virtually all of the state's normal functions has both overburdened the party and hampered the orderly administration of social and economic life under China's socialist system, commentary expressing Deng's point of view has accordingly stressed that the CCP should confine itself simply to "exercising political leadership over the state." The party, such commentary explains, thus should

9. For Deng Xiaoping's comments defending the early stages of the Beijing wallposter campaign that blossomed into the "democracy Wall" movement, see his c:omments to the visiting Japanese Democratic Socialist leader Sasaki as reported by Xinhua, Renmin ribao, November 28, 1978, p. 1. On characterizations of the 5th NPC's 3rd session, see the editorial "A Congress of Democracy, A Congress of Reform," Renmin ribao, , 1980, p. 1; FBIS-PRC, September 12, 1980. · 10. The new criminal codes, for example, appear in Renmin ribao, July 7, 1979, pp. 1, 3 & 4, and July 8, 1979, pp. 1-3. 11. See e.g. the commentator article, "This Type of Bad Trend Must Be Stopped," Renmin ribao, October 30, 1980, p. 1. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 13 provide leadership in overall "line, principles and policies" rather than leadership in "administration, technology, business and man­ agement" which are areas in which the state properly exercises authority. 12 The Fifth NPC's third session is in that regard praised as a state meeting which followed the CCP's general lead in initiating major changes in a "spirit of democracy and reform" and which thus "embodied the functions of the NPC as the highest organ of state power in a highly significant way."13 Taken as a whole, the thrust of Deng Xiaoping's efforts to transform both the style and substance of political life in China is toward a political atmosphere which encourages the expression and resolution of conflicting political views and interests beneficial to the primary goal of rapid Chinese modernization, but within a context which structures such debate and conflict according to firmly­ established organizational rules and bodies of socialist law. In that regard, of course, Deng inherits a political tradition within Chinese Communism which had come to the fore at the 8th CCP Congress in 1956 but which was subsequently repudiated thoroughly during the Cultural Revolution. The keynote of that approach had been sounded at the 8th CCP Congress by Liu Shaoqi in words as meaningful for Deng's political reform program in post-Mao China as they were for political events in 1956. "The question of who will win in the struggle between socialism and in our country has now been decided," Liu stated. The victory of socialism in China, Liu concluded, means that "the period of revolutionary storm and stress is past, new relations of production have been set up and the aim of our struggle is changed into one of safeguarding the successful development of the productive forces of society, so that a corresponding change in the methods of struggle will have to follow and a complete legal system becomes an absolute necessity."14 In thus upholding what might be termed the "8th CCP Congress line" on the political requirements of Chinese modernization in the socialist stage, Deng Xiaoping is simultaneously overthrowing the

12. Contributing commentator article, "On the Separation of the Work of the Party and the Government," Renmin ribao, December 18, 1980, p. 5; FBIS-PRC, December 19, 1980. 13. Renmin ribao editorial, September 12, 1980, supra note 9, 14. Liu Shaoqi, "Political Report of the Central Committee of the CCP to the 8th National Congress of the Party," delivered September 15, 1956, in Eight Natioool Congress of the Communist Party of Chioo, vol. 1 "Documents," !Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1956), p. 37 and p. 82. 14 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIEs SERIES line developed by Mao Zedong in the years of leadership strife after 1956. That approach, which found its most vivid expression in the Cultural Revolution itself, was built on Mao's thesis of "continuing the revolution under the of the ." According to that approach, class struggle in socialist society, far from receding as Liu Shaoqi had suggested, may actually intensify as disenfranchised elements from the abolished expoiting classes make last-ditch efforts to regain power and as the continuing corrosion of residual reactionary ideologies compromises the revolutionary in­ tegrity of the leadership of the party itself. Social progress in socialist society therefore demands the ever-sharper drawing of class lines in society and may ultimately require the overthrow of once revolution­ ary leaders of the party now corrupted by the "sugar-coated bullets" of reactionary ideologies and the abandonment of formal party and state institutions, laws and procedures which ultimately may res­ train rather than safeguard or advance the progressive desires of the masses and their activist leaders.15 The Maoist approach to China's development in the socialist stage was reaffirmed as the basis of politics early after Mao's death in 1976 but has been the focus of strong ideological attacks by Deng and ·his political allies since then. Chairman Hua Guofeng authoritatively endorsed the thesis of "continuing the revolution under the dicta­ torship of the proletariat" as Mao's greatest contribution to the body of Marxist-Leninist theory, and the 11th CCP Congress in 1977 called on the party to "persist in continuing the revolution" as part of its basic task. Class struggle remains the CCP's primary task in the current stage as long as the threat of overthrow and subversion of the revolutionary regime persists, the party's 1977 Constitution declared, warning that political such as the Cultural Revolution "will be carried out many times in the future." 16 Thereafter, at the December 1978 Third Plenum - a major watershed in post-Mao Chinese politics - the party implicitly reaffirmed the 8th CCP Congress line in declaring that "the large-scale turbulent class

15. A seminal essay delineating these traditions within Chinese communism is Tang Tsou, ·"The Cultural Revolution and the Chinese Political System," China Quarterly, No. 38 (April-June 1969), pp. 63-91. 16. Hua Guofeng, "Carry the Continuing Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Through to the End- Studying Volume Five of The Selected Works of Mao Zedong," Renmin ribao, May 1, 1977, pp. 1-4; "Constitution of the CCP, "Renmin ribao, August 24, 1977 and FBIS-PRC, September 1, 1977, supplement, "Material on the 11th National Congress of the CCP." THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 15 struggles of a mass character has in the main come to an end" and that what class struggle remains must be handled "in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the (state) constitution and the law" as the party "shifts the focus of its work" to speeding China's modernization. 17 Within this broad framework of Deng Xiaoping's efforts to bring about a fundamental transformation in post-Mao Chinese politics, the Beijing trials of the "gang of four" and the surviving members of Lin Biao's clique played an important symbolic part. By bringing the Cultural Revolution's most prominent leftist leaders - save Mao himself - to trial, Deng was in effect putting the Cultural Revolution itself on trial in perhaps the most dramatic example of the restored 8th CCP Congress line in practice. The Beijing trials were thus intended to complement Deng's drive to win final, authoritative condemnation of the Cultural Revolution years in party history, to provide a vivid demonstration of the current regime's permanent commitment to modernization within a framework of authoritative laws and institutions, and to further efforts to root out those still committed to the Cultural Revolution's politics and principles from the party and state apparatus. The massive attention given the trials in the PRC media repeatedly stressed the importance of the trials for these various complementary political goals. To further explicit condemnation of the Cultural Revolution decade, for example, the Beijing prosecutors tried the leaders of the Cultural Revolution's two most important leftist cliques together - albeit in separate courts - and tried them only for crimes during the Cultural Revolution. The Lin Biao and "gang of four" cliques, PRC Chief Procurator Huoqing explained in reporting preparations for the trials, had "common counterrevolutionary goals and common counterrevolutionary ac­ tions" and were thus "entangled and inseparable from each other." Huang's report provided a new benchmark itself in overall condemna­ tion of the Cultural Revolution by repeatedly enclosing the term "Cultural Revolution" in quotation marks, a derogation of the period that has become conventional in the Beijing press thereafter. 18 While Huang explained that deceased participants in the Lin and "gang" cliques would not be tried posthumously, the criminal activities of

17. "Communique of the 11th CCP 3rd Plenum," supra note 8. 18. Huang Huoqing report to the NPC Standing Committee's sixteenth session, September 27, 1980, Renmin ribao, September 28, 1980, p. 1; FBIS-PRC, September 29, 1980. 16 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES such dead leftist leaders were recounted in detail in the press during the trials, including those of and . 19 As the trials proceeded, moreover, the Chinese media carried long accounts of the Cultural Revolution's most notorious events - most notably of the death of Liu Shaoqi, the attempted coup of Lin Biao in 1971, and the attempted radical insurrection in in 1976 - easily the most informative reports on these affairs by Beijing's own telling.20 The long indictment of the trials' defendants itself advanced author­ itative interpretation of the Cultural Revolution decade by providing details of several incidents only alluded to previously and for the first time mentioning several leaders of the period who since 1976 had disappeared from public view without explanation.21 Underscoring Deng's hope that the trials would lend impetus to efforts to remove or discredit leftists from various levels of the party and state leadership, Huang Huoqing in his report on preparations for the trials observed that other defendants would be tried at appropriate levels of the court system.22 The People's Daily, in a January 26, 1981 editorial on the close of the trials, predicted triumphantly in that regard that the trials' verdicts "will help us to pass correct judgment on other defendants in the case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counterrevolutionary cliques and to strike at as well as disintegrate the remaining forces of these two counterrevolution­ ary cliques, and encourage more people to admit their guilt."23 That the trials were intended to demonstrate the regime's permanent commitment to law as the ultimate arbiter of political

19. Qizhang and Jin Shi, "Ripping Off the Mask of Kang Sheng," Renmin ribao, , 1980, p. 4, and FBIS-PRC, December 24, 1980; Chen Jiayong, "Xie Fuzhi Cannot Escape the Judgment of History," Renmin ribao, December 23, 1980, and FBIS-PRC, December 29, 1980. Both Kang and Xie were posthumously expelled from the party on the eve of the trials' opening, according to Renmin ribao, November 1, 1980, p. 1. 20. Liu Pingping, Liu and Liu Tingting, "Offering the Fresh Flowers of Victory to You - Commemorating Our Father Liu Shaoqi," Gongren ribao, December 5, 1980, pp. 2-3, December 6, 1980, p. 2, and December 8, 1980, p. 2, and in FBIS-PRC, December 31, 1980; "An Account of the Bankrupting of Lin Biao's Counterrevolution­ ary Coup," Renmin ribao, November 24, 1980, pp. 3-4; and Gao , "The Frenzy of the Final Days - The Details of the Efforts of the 'Gang of Four' and Their Adherents to Provoke Counterrevolutionary Armed Rebellion in Shanghai," Renmin ribao, Decem­ ber 14, 1980, p. 2. 21. "Indictment of the Special Procuratorate of the PRC Supreme People's Procuratorate," Renmin ribao, November 21, 1980, pp. 1-3; FBIS-PRC, November 20, 1980. 22. Huang Huoqing report, September 27, 1980, supra note 18. 23. "A Just Verdict," Renmin ribao, January 26, 1981, pp. 1-4. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG OF FouR 17 behavior under Chinese socialism was stressed repeatedly throughout the trials. A People's Daily's September 30, 1980, editorial on preparations for the trials thus observed that the proceedings would provide China's masses with "an intensive education in the socialist legal system" and would "declare to the whole country and the whole world that our country will become still more stable and united and that our socialist cause will surely advance soundly along the path of democracy and legality."24 The on September 30th recalled that Lin Biao and the "gang of four" had "totally disregarded party discipline and state law and created a situation of chaos and absolute lawlessness," so that "the state did not function as a state and the party could not function as a party." "This bitter historical lesson," the Guangming Daily continued, "clearly demonstrates to us the truth that the law of the People's Republic is a magic weapon in the hands of the people to rule the country and to protect themselves."25 The People's Daily similarly noted in an editorial as the trials opened that "the era of lawlessness when the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counterrevolutionary cliques were running wild is gone forever" and that China "has now entered a new period of promoting socialist democracy and strengthening the socialist legal system."26

The Verdicts: Triumph or Setback? The Beijing trials closed on January 25, 1981, with the same triumphant fanfare that had greeted their opening. The People's Daily on the following day declared that the trials' verdicts against the Cultural Revolution cliques are "verdicts of history" which have "realized the people's wishes." The condemned leftist leaders "have forever been condemned to disgrace in history as the people's public enemies, arch-usurpers of state power and national criminals, and they will go down in history as a byword for infamy," the party paper predicted.27 China's domestic and foreign media thereafter poured out a flood of commentary patterned after the same themes laid out by

24. "A Solemn Decision," Renmin ribao, September 30, 1980, p. 1; FBIS-PRC, September 30, 1980. 25. "That Which Damages the State and Harms the People Will Not Be Tolerated by the Law of the State," Guangming ribao, September 30, 1980, p. 1; FBIS-PRC, October 14, 1980. 26. "Trial by the Nine Hundred Million People," Renmin ribao, November 22, 1980, p. 1; FBIS-PRC, November 24, 1980. 27. "A Just Verdict," supra note 23. 18 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIEs SERIEs the People's Daily, claiming to express the deep satisfaction of people at all levels of the country. Despite the predictably triumphant note sounded in the public media at the trials' close, however, a number of indications through­ out the trials suggested that they may not have completely fulfilled the aims that Deng and his associates entertained in opening them. While it is certainly too early to determine whether in the long run the results of the trials contributed to the advance of his overall reform program, the trials in the short run may have contributed to clear political setbacks to his reform enterprise since the trials opened, however short-lived those setbacks may turn out to be. Since his in 1977 Deng's efforts to bring about a fundamental transformation in Chinese political life have been resisted by a variety of groups in the central party leadership. The most important group opposing Deng's drastic political reforms has been a coalition of moderate or centrist leaders led by party Chairman Hua Guofeng and Vice Chairmen Jianying and Xiannian. Proceeding from. diverse. political interests and loyalties and from differing perspectives on China's domestic and foreign situation, these leaders have appeared to find common ground in opposing the scope and speed of Deng Xiaoping's efforts to transform China's political and economic systems. From time to time, moreover, the politically independent party Vice Ch~irman has appeared to align himself both with Deng Xiaoping on one hand and with political moderates like Hua Guofeng and on the other, depending on the particular issue at hand. Leaders like Hua, Ye and have thus stressed the necessity of political "stability and unity" for the sake of modernization and apparently perceive Deng's drastic political and economic reforms to be too divisive to party unity and social stability. Where Deng Xiaoping evidently believes that a more critical assessment of the party's leadership under Mao Zedong, a more thorough purge of the party's membership and a liberalization of party control to be the key to solving both the "crisis of confidence" in the CCP's leadership and the success of the "," the moderate leadership sus­ pects that these reforms will only exacerbate China's problems. Further criti~ism of Mao and the 9ultura} Revolution can only further damage the party's already dimmed prestige, efforts to extend the party purge will only sharpen already acute antagonisms in lower-level party organizations, and efforts at liberalization will only weaken party authority and control at a time when such attributes are needed most as China's modernization accelerates, such leaders THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 19 appear to argue. The main threat to China's socialist modernization, leaders like Hua Guofeng have suggested, is not the "left erroneous trend" within the party which remains committed to the politics and principles of the Cultural Revolution years but rather the "right erroneous trend" in Chinese society at large which doubts the capacity of the CCP to lead Chinese modernization - a diverse body of opinion which may in fact grow stronger as a side-effect of modernization itself.28 This moderate coalition has from time to time dealt Deng Xiaoping unmistakable setbacks politically, sometimes on single political issues but at other times on a broad range of fronts. Despite such setbacks, however, Deng has in the past three years won a series of important political victories against his moderate opposi­ tion, particularly in 1980. The ability to win consistent political victories over his opposi­ tion has been crucial to the long-run success of Deng's overall reform program. The reason for this need concerns the balance of political sentiment at lower levels of the party apparatus. Provincial political commentary thus describes three main types of cadres at local levels in China. Some cadres, according to such comment, strongly endorse Deng Xiaoping's reformist political goals and policies and vigorously support them at their levels. Another group of cadres - most of whom were recruited and advanced during the Cultural Revolution years - actively oppose Deng's policies, either out of the political conviction that they are "revisionist" or out of personal political interest. Both of these two groups, provincial commentary has suggested, comprise minorities among the body of local cadres. The overwhelming majority lies between the two leftist and reformist wings. Accordingly, they sympathize with the overall direction of Deng Xiaoping's policies and reforms but choose not to implement them because they are not convinced that Deng has gained the upper hand in the central party leadership permanently and that therefore one day they may again be attacked for implementing "rightist" or "revisionist" policies as cadres were during the Cultural Revolution years. Such persisting concern for a potential leftist return to power has commonly been referred to as the "lingering fear" in the party's ranks and frequently cited as the major obstacle to the implementa­ tion of Deng's reforms since the Third Plenum.29

28. Contrast, for example, the speeches by Hua Guofeng on May 3, 1979, in Renmin ribao, May 4, 1979, p. 1, and by Zhou Yang, in Renmin ribao, May 7, pp. 2, 4. 29. See e.g. the speech by on May 22, 1979, as reported by Xinhua's Chinese service and translated in FBIS-PRC, May 23, 1979. 20 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

Regular reassurances that Deng's political reforms are advancing without impediment at the central level have thus been crucial to Deng's efforts to dispel the "lingering fear" of the left at lower levels and thereby to ensure implementation of his policies there. Despite apparent setbacks in the wake of the Third Plenum in the spring of 1979, Deng has since then won important political victories on a number of fronts at the central level, particularly in 1980. The results of the Fifth Plenum in February 1980 - leading to the purge of the "little gang of four" from the Politburo, the restoration of the Secretariat, the exoneration of Liu Shaoqi, and the inauguration of a more concerted party rectification drive - and of the 5th NPC's third session in the following September, highlighted by the replacement of Hua Guofeng as premier by Deng's reformist ally Zhao Ziyang and the acceleration of reforms in the economic and state administrative structures, provided clearcut evidence that Deng was moving force­ fully toward his goals. The opening of the Beijing trials in in the context of these other events of that year reinforced the impression of Deng's relentless advance against his opposition, particularly in anticipation of major party meetings expected to be convene by the end of the year. The emergence of persistent rumors that Hua Guofeng had been forced to resign his positon as party chairman as the trials got underway also appeared to confirm that Deng's political reform program was proceeding according to schedule.30 A central work conference was expected to resolve questions of Hua's status and to offer a draft party resolution on historical questions from the Cultural Revolution years, all for formal approval by a sixth Central Committee plenum in late or early January 198V0a The sixth party plenum has not come off, as of this writing at least, apparently because the underlying political compromises within the leadership over the various issues to be endorsed have come undone. The impetus for these political shifts seems to have come primarily from a new assessment of China's economic situation and its implications emerging in early December 1980, but the proceedings of the trials themselves appear to have themselves

30. See e.g. the Agence Presse report of December 14, 1980, in FBIS-PRC, December 15, 1980. 30a.

exacerbated antagonisms among the leadership, instead of playing out smoothly within a context of leadership consensus. Certainly there must have been a carefully wrought leadership consensus behind the trials as they opened on November 20, reflecting a delicate balance of various political sensitivities and concerns among the leadership. The indictment of the leftists to be tried, released by NCNA in full as the trials opened, was a clear indication of this consensus underlying the trials.31 Mao Zedong is scarcely mentioned in the long, detailed list of 48 criminal charges against the defendants - the few references to him coming mostly in connection with Lin Biao's attempt to assassinate him in 1971 and the "gang of four's" efforts to sway his judgment against Zhou Enlai in 1974 on the eve of the 4th NPC. Hua Guofeng similarly was mentioned only rarely. He was not named among those suffering at the hands of the left in the Cultural Revolution's early years, evidently because he did not rank high enough at that time as a provincial party leader to be placed among the leadership so named. The 1976 incident was mentioned only briefly as an example of the "gang's" slander of the masses, but the details of its suppression - evidently a political albatross for Hua Guofeng because of his alleged part in it - were not elaborated. Despite the evident effort by the leadership to confine con­ troversy over the conduct of the trials, the proceedings nevertheless were obviously expected to stir high political emotions on both sides of the Chinese political spectrum. At least one provincial leadership warned on the eve of the trials' opening of the possibility of leftist political violence in reaction to the proceedings in Beijing.32 Jiang Qing's vocal ridicule of the proceedings against her and 's equally effective silent contempt for the trials seemed completely in keeping with the fierce defiance that had made both notorious in the past and may actually have won some measure of respect- if not outright sympathy- from China's population.33 On the right end of the political spectrum, Beijing's own media seemed,

31. "Indictment of the Special Procuratorate of the PRC Supreme Peoples' Procuratorate," supra note 21. 32. Hefei Radio report on the November 13 CCP and People's Government meeting, November 14, 1980, as translated in FBIS-PRC, November 17, 1980. 33. David Bonavia, China-watcher for the magazine Far Eastern Economic Review, observed after the trials' close that "surprisingly, many ordinary Chinese felt the sentences (given the defendants) . . . were too severe. "See David Bonavia, "Will the Gang Rise Again?" in Far Eastern Economic Review, February 20, 1981, pp. 36-37. 22 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES consciously or not, to enflame passions as some commentary's vituperation of the radical leftists in the dock savored sentiments of revenge seemingly beyond the bounds demanded of impartial justice. Jiang Qing in particular seemed to be the focus of special animus, and media reporting noted with particular favor the satisfaction of and Pu Anxiu- the widows ofLiu Shaoqi and Peng Dehuai, respectively- at the progress of the trials.34 That new leadership controversy may have broken out in the midst of the trials, particularly as Jiang Qing was forcibly ejected from the court on the eve of the anticipated party central work conference, moreover, seems clear from the unexplained four-day break in the trials proceedings from December 15th to 18th, and the ten-day break in proceedings against Jiang Qiang following her ejection on December 12th. The spectacle of Mao's widow being dragged from the courtroom, having evidently implicated both Mao and Hua Guofeng in her alleged crimes, on the eve of a major party conference may thus have finally cracked the fa~ade of leadership consensus over the trials.35 Jiang was returned to the courtroom on December 23rd, but only after a remarkably defensive "contributing commentator" article in the People's Daily the day before insisted that the leftists were being tried for "crimes" and not errors or deviations in political line. While in his later years Mao Zedong had "made mistakes, especially in initiating and leading the Cultural Revolution," these mistakes were "entirely different" in nature from the criminal actions of the Lin Biao and "gang of four" cliques, the article stated.36 As the courts moved thereafter into the final stages of the trials, moreover, court prosecutor summarily rebutted Jiang Qing's alleged efforts to "shift the responsibility" for her crimes onto Mao Zedong, even though Chinese media before December 23rd had given no explicit indication that she had done so. 37 All of these new difficulties in the trials emerged against a political background that began to move strongly against Deng Xiaoping. The harbinger of these political reverses was an editorial in the People's Daily on December 2nd, conveying a much more

34. See e.g. the report by Hu Sisheng, "The Day the Trials Opened," Renmin ribao, November 21, 1980, p. 4; FBIS-PRC, November 24, 1980. 35. Renmin ribao, December 13, 1980, p. 4; see also FBIS-PRC, December 15, 1980. 36. "A Milestone in Socialist Democracy and Legal System - Commenting on the Trials of the Lin Biao and Jing Qing Counterrevolutionary Cliques," Renmin ribao, December 22, 1980, pp. 1, 5. 37. Renmin ribao, December 30, 1980, pp. 1, 4; FBIS-PRC, January 2, 1981. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 23 pessimistic appraisal of China's economic situation than had been put forward by Deng and his spokesmen in the preceding months. At the NPC session in September, for example, Deng and others tied to him had declared that the economic situation was good overall, that existing problems could be handled successfully, that the three-year "readjustment" program need not be extended past 1981, and that efforts to "restructure" and reform the economy should be acceler­ ated. By contrast, the December 2 editorial stated that several economic problems - including serious national budget deficits, a grain harvest shortfall, and energy resource shortages- have proven to be "unexpectedly" serious, that the economic "readjustment" program must be extended beyond 1981, and that economic reforms will have to be subordinated to the overriding task of readjusting sectoral imbalances and overcoming central financial deficits. 38 The New Year's editorial in the People's Daily strongly reiterated and elaborated on the pessimism on the economic front contained in the December 2 editorial and noted that an upcoming NPC Standing Committee session would have to revise the economic plans put forward under Deng's impetus at the NPC's full session the preceding September.39 Building on this new pessimism on the economy were other changes in line which equally hurt Deng Xiaoping. Beginning with a December 5 People's Daily editorial, authoritative central press commentary began to stress the necessity of effective "political and ideological work" to counter the effects on social order of prolonged economic retrenchment.40 The party paper's New Year's editorial was striking in that regard, resurrecting from political disgrace several Maoist voluntarist economic slogans which had been discredited over the previous summer and fall -including the calls to "fear neither

38. "Completely Execute and Firmly Implement the Guiding Principle of Read­ justment," Renmin ribao, December 2, 1980, p. 1. For examples of the earlier optimism of Deng Xiaoping and his supporters on the economy, see 's comments to Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs adviser Ushiba Nobuhiko, as reported by Xinhua on September 5, 1980, in Renmin ribao, September 6, 1980, p. 4 and FBIS-PRC, September 8, 1980, and Deng Xiaoping's comments to Komeito leader Takeiri Yoshikatsu as reported by Xinhua on September 14, 1980, in Renmin ribao, September 15, 1980, p. 1, and FBIS-PRC, September 16, 1980. 39. "On the Basis of Stability and Unity Carry Out the Great Task of National economic Readjustment," Renmin ribao, January 1, 1981, p. 1. 40. "Strengthening Ideological and Political Work is an Important Guarantee for Fulfilling the Four Modernizations," Renmin ribao, December 5, 1980, pp. 1, 4. 24 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STuDIES SERIES hardship nor death" and to imitate the spirit of "the foolish old man who moved the mountain."41 In the months after December these shifts in party line were followed by other signs of leadership disarray, as one by one the whole range of Deng's political initiatives were either stalled or reversed altogether. Campaigns to promote China's "spiritual civi­ lization" unfolded as part of an effort to shore up the party's prestige and position in a context of serious economic difficulty and retrench­ ment. Party rectification, insofar as it involved expanded efforts to "readjust" lower-level leadership groups, seemed to recede in priority and to refocus on the need to reform and cultivate a party workstyle appropriate to economically hard times. Efforts to liberalize party controls over trade unions were reversed outright, as a January 15 People's Daily editorial strongly reaffirmed the necessity of CCP supervision over trade union organizations and condemned any effort to "throw off' such control - a striking indication of the party leadership's uneasiness at the implications of developments in Poland for the CCP in a situation of economic uncertainty in China itself.42 Many of these shifts appear to have vindicated the views of leadership moderates long opposed to Deng, and especially those of Hua Guofeng. Hua had publicly challenged - and subsequently suffered implicit but clearly pointed criticism - the political wisdom of Deng's excessive reliance on "material incentives" in economically­ constrained circumstances and had stressed the continuing necessity of "political and ideological work" in a highly controversial speech in the previous spring. Many of Hua's views thus expressed may have seemed, in the context of December's evaluation of the economy, more realistic than Deng's optimism at the NPC session in September.43 The political upshot of these policy shifts clearly was to stall the advance of Deng's reform program. The central work conference, scheduled to resolve sensitive questions in party history and concern­ ing Hua Guofeng's status, was held in mid-December, but was unusually short in duration, judging by the lengths of previous conferences. The work conference, moreover, appears to have dealt

41. "On the Basis of Stability and Unity Carry Out the Great Task of National Eonomic Readjustment," supra note 39. 42. "Strengthen Trade Union Work in a Big Way," Renmin ribao, January 15, 1981, pp. 1, 4. 43. Hua Guofeng speech to a PLA conference on political work, delivered on , 1980, in Renmin ribao, May 8, 1980. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 25 with economic rather than political problems!• Hua Guofeng's status has not been clarified, and he has even appeared publicly in early February in a curious signal that the party still had not resolved its difficulties.45 And most telling of all, the anticipated sixth party plenum was not held until . At that meeting, Hua was demoted to a junior vice chairman of the party. In the confused political context in Beijing, the courts finally passed judgement on the Cultural Revolution cliques on January 25, 1981!6 If Deng had intended the trials as both a new indication of the steady advance of his political reform program and as a demonstra­ tion of the impartial application of law to political criminality untainted by party interference, the verdicts handed down must have been seen as disappointing or at least as politically ambiguous. The two defendants who had repeatedly earned the most vitriolic invective from the press throughout the proceedings - Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao - were given death sentences with two year reprieves, evidently in an effort to give them the opportunity to repent their crimes. This surprising leniency with regard to "crimin­ als" implicated directly or indirectly in the formal indictment in the persecution and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Cultural Revolution contrasts with Beijing's apparent readiness to sanction immediate execution of convicted leftists at lower levels responsibile for far less extensive crimes. Such leniency, extended to the two defendants who had done the most throughout the trials to demonstrate their contempt for the proceedings, thus seems to provide a measure of the enormous political sensitivity that still surrounds the Cultural Revolution left. Similarly, the sentencing of Wang Hongwen to life imprisonment seems excessively harsh, both in light of the more moderate sentences given to leaders convicted of such crimes as attempting to assassinate Mao and in view of the implicitly sympathetic treatment Wang received in the press throughout the trials for his youth and attitude of apparent cooperation and repentance. One speculates that political concerns that Wang may eventually emerge as a focus of leftist

44. Note in particular the comment by Hu Yaobang in his toast at a party New Year's reception on January 1, 1981 that the recent central work conference had discussed "problems in the national economic situation" and his failure to note that the meeting had discussed political issues. Renmin ribao, January 2, 1981, p. 2. 45. Renmin ribao, February 5, 1981, p. 1. 46. Renmin ribao, January 26, 1981, p. 1. and pp. 2-3; FBIS·PRC, January 26, 1981. 26 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES discontent in the future may account for the seeming immoderation in his sentence.

Conclusion While the opening of the Beijing trials must be seen as yet another measure of Deng Xiaoping's steady advance, the trials' results may also have fallen significantly short of their intended goals. Proceeding amid a dramatic shift in the overall political climate away from Deng, the trials probably served only to exacer­ bate central leadership tensions already sharpening under the strains of other issues. At lower levels of the party where "lingering fears" of a leftward turn away from Deng's controversial reform programs remain alive among the broad body of cadres, the trials' temporary halt amid signs of renewed leadership contention over questions raised by the trials themselves, as well as the curious verdicts at their conclusion, may not have provided the convincing symbol of firm central consensus under Deng's hegemony necessary to dispel such concerns. Certainly the trials' ambiguous and evidently politi­ cally skewed results in the overall context of leadership reversals on economic policy and other issues could have reassured very few at lower levels of the party. Similarly, the apparent renewal of leadership debate as the trials proceeded and over the trials themselves may have poisoned the atmosphere of impartial legality necessary for the trials to stand as a lasting demonstration of socialist law as the ultimate arbiter of political conflict. Despite the repeated affirmations of the Beijing press to the contrary, the balancing of political concerns and sensitivities among the party leadership, and not the impartial workings of firmly-esta.blished legal institutions, decided the course of the trials from beginning to end. How the trials come to be viewed in the future in China, of course, depends heavily on the political fortunes of Deng Xiaoping himself. If Deng recovers from what may yet turn out to be only a momentary lapse in the momentum of his drive for drastic political reform in China, the trials will undoubtedly emerge as an important milestone in that campaign. However, if the current economic difficulties mark a major turning point in Deng's record of political advance over the previous years - if Deng's reform programs stall or fail in the face of Chinese political, social and economic realities which require more conservative approaches - then the trials and their verdicts may again become the focus of political controversy themselves. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG OF FoUR 27 Chapter II

CERTAIN LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE RECENT PEKING TRIALS OF THE "GANG OF FOUR" AND OTHERS

Hungdah Chiu

The system is used for Chinese names from the Mainland, the Wade-Giles system is used for those from and Hong Kong.)

I. INTRODUCTION On November 20, 1980, more than four years after the coup d'etat which resulted in the arrest of the leaders of the Cultural Revolution, and more than nine years after the arrest of the alleged leaders of the abortive coup d'etat against Mao, Peking began its trials of these former leaders. Sixty-seven days later, Peking's special court handed down sentences: Jiang Qing, the 67-year-old widow of Mao and a Polibureau member, and Zhang Chunqiao, the 63-year-old former Vice-Premier, mayor of Shanghai and also a Polibureau member, both labeled "chief culprits" by the court, received death sentences suspended for two years, 1 commutable to life imprisonment if the malfactors show "evidence of repentence during the period of suspension of execution."2 Eight others received sentences ranging from 16 years to life in prison. Most of those receiving specific prison terms are probably too old or too ill to survive the years in jail. Most observers outside China would agree that the "Gang of Four" trial and the Lin Biao trial were primarily political exercises to liquidate the losers of a power struggle. The Chinese press, however, has consistently maintained that the trials were strictly legal proceedings. Soon after the announcement of the sentences, China's press called the judgments against the leaders of the Cultural Revolution a victory for the country's new legal system and described the trials as a landmark - the end of a lawless era, a successful test of China's new legal system and a demonstration that all are equal

1. See "Written Judgement of the Special Court under the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China," Beijing Review, Vol. 24, No. 5 (Feb. 2, 1981), pp. 13-23. 2. See Article 46 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, adopted on July 1, 1979 and effective on January 1, 1980. See Guangming Ribao

before the law.3 In view of the Chinese insistence on regarding the trials strictly as a legal proceeding, it is illuminating to consider the proceedings from the perspective of their place within the Chinese legal structure. The legality of the Peking trials is properly measured against the recently enacted Arrest and Detention Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, and Constitution, and against certain basic principles of the administration of justice which are also embodied in these laws and in recent Chinese legal writings. This paper analyzes the process of arrest and detention, the composition of the trial court, the defendants' use of their right to defense, the special court's evaluation of the evidence, the applicable law, and related matters in accordance with these legal criteria.

II. LEGAL DEFECTS IN THE PROCEEDINGS A. Arrest and Detention The six defendants of the Lin Biao case were arrested in , following an abortive coup d'etat, and the four defendants of the "Gang of Four" were arrested in October 1976. It was not until , however, that the accused were finally referred to the Ministry of Public Security (the police) for investiga­ tion, and it was not until September 1980 that the case was finally referred to the Supreme People's Procuracy for prosecution.• There were three serious legal defects in the arrest and pretrial detention. Fim,=-the-c organ arresting and detaining the defendants ,::-r was I}Ot a government agency, but a party organ. Such an arrest and u detention was in clear violation of the 1954 Arrest and Detention Act "- - of the PRC/ which was applicable throughout most of the relevant period. Article 1 of this Act provides that "no citizen may be arrested except by decision of a people's court or with the approval of a people's procuracy." Article 2 of the recently enacted 1979 Arrest and ::r Detention Act6 contains similar provisions and also provides that on

3. "China's Press Hail Trial As Victory for Legal System," , January 27, 1981, p.A5. 4. See Fox Butterfield, "In China, They're Presumed Guilty Until Found Guilty," The New York Times, November 23, 1980, p. 4E. 5. Translated in part in Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universi­ ty Press, 1968, pp. 360-362. 6. "Regulation for Arrest and Detention," Beijing Review, Vol 22, No. 10 (March 9, 1979), p. 4. Complete text released by Xinhua (New China) News Agency on February 24, 1979. THE TRLu. oF THE GANG oF FoUR 29

the effective date of the new Act, February 23, 1979, the 1954 Act would be abrogated, thus making it clear that the 1954 Act was in force when all the defendants were arrested or detained. The 1979 Act further provides that evidence against the detainees must be submitted to the appropriate people's procuratorate within three days or, in special circumstances, seven days after the arrest. The procuratorate must then either sanction the arrest or order the release of the detainee within three days (Aritcle 8). These provisions were not complied with in the arrest and detention of the ten defendants. The second serious legal defect concerning the arrest and detention arises from Article 92 of the Criminal Procedure Law,7 effective January 1, 1980, which provides:

The maximum period for an accused to be detained pending preliminary investigations shall not exceed two months. If the circumstances of a case are complicated and the investigation of a case is not concluded after two months, an extension of one month may be granted by the people's procuratorate at the next higher level. If a case is particularly serious and complicated and the investigation of the case is not concluded after an extension of one month has been granted in accordance with the preceding provision, the Supreme People's Procuratorate shall report the case to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) for approval of an extension for further inves­ tigation.

The Ministry of Public Security took over the case in April 1980~ but it took that grgan five months to conclude the invest~~;~tion. During that five-month period,-·however, the Supreme People's Procuratorate had neither approved a one-month extension of the investigation period nor requested the Standing Committee of the NPC for a further extension of the investigation period.8 The third legal defect in the arrest and detention arises from the 1954 Act of the PRC for Reform Through Labor.9 (The continued

7. Chinese text published in Guangmin Ribao (The Enlightenment Daily), July 8, 1979, pp. 2, 3. 8. See "Principal Culprits of the Counter-Revolutionary Cliques of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing to be Tried," Beijing Review, Vol 23, No. 40 (October 6, 1980), p. 3. 9. Translated in part in Cohen, supra, note 5, pp. 589-594. 30 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES validity of this Act was confirmed by the NPC Standing Committee's decision of November 29, 1979.)10 Article 8 of the Act provides that "detention houses shall be used primarily for confining in custody offenders whose cases have not been adjudged," while Article 13 provides that "prisons shall be used primarily for holding counterr~­ voluiiuna.ry offenders and other important criminal offenders whose cases have already been adjudged ...." In contravention of.these provision~ the ten defendants in the November 1980 trials had been detained in Cheng Prison for periods of four to ten years before sentences were handed down on January 25, 1981Y

B. The Establishment and the Composition of the Prosecuting and Trial Organs . On September 29, 1980, the Standing Committee of the NPC decided to establish a special procuratorate and a special court to prosecute and try the ten defendants. Huang Huoqing, the Supreme People's Procurator, was appointed chief of the special procuratorate, and Jiang Hua was named chief judge of the special court.12 The legal basis for organizing a special procuratorate and a special court was as~~d to .t:,eside in Article 20 of the Organic Law of the Procuracy an~~rticle 3~of the Organic Law of the Court. The first of these provisions states:13

The Supreme People's Procuratorate shall establish criminal, disciplinary, prison and economic procuratorial divisions. It may also, according to its need, establish_other or~an;; [to carry out its functions].

Article 31 of the Organic Law of the Court states:14

The Supreme People's Court may establish Criminal Division, Civil Division, Economic Division and other necessary divisions.

10. See Renmin Ribao, November 30, 1979, p. 1. 11. See "Before the Opening of the Trial," dispatch from Peking, Dagong Bao (Impartial daily - a Hong Kong Chinese Communitst newspaper), November 19, 1980. For a vivid description of the Qin Cheng prison, see Fox Butterfield, "Peking Dissident, in Rare Account, Tells of Political Prisoners' Torture," The New York Times, May 7, 1979, pp. AI, A10. 12. See supra note 8. 13. See Jianpan Wu and Tao Ouyang; "On Problems of the Application of Law Concerning the Trials in the Counterrevolutionary Cases of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing," Faxue Yenjiu (Studies in Law), 1980, No. 6, p.3. 14. Ibid. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 31

PRC jurist Zhang Youyu explained that the special court was established in accordance with the above-quoted Article 31 of the Organic Law of the Court. 15 One may, however, argue that the Organic laws for both procuracy and court appear to provide for the establishment of standing organs (divisions), while the special procuratorate and court here are purely ad hoc creations. Thus, it may be argued that the establishment of the special procuratorate and court was without statutory basis and therefore null and void. Even assuming that the establishment of the special procuratorate and court was legal, their compostition was clearly in violation of the PRC Criminal Procedure Law and of basic principles regarding the administration of justice. First, many of the judges and procurators were not selected from within the judicial and procuratorial branches; in fact, some were even selected from among persons in active military service. For instance, one of the deputy chiefs of the special procuratorate, Shi Jinqian, is deputy-director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Wu Ziuquan, deputy chief of the General Staff of the PLA, was appointed as chief judge of the second tribunal of the special court. 16 Moreover, the composition of the prosecuting and trial organs violated Article 23 of the Criminal Procedure Law, which provides: Judges, procurators and investigators involved in one of the following situations should withdraw from a case, and the accused and his or her legal representative have the right to ask them to withdraw if: (1) They are parties to the case or close relatives of the parties to the case; (2) They themselves or their close relatives have an interest in the case ...

Among the alleged victims listed in the indictment are Jiang Hua, chief judge of the special court, and Huang Huoqing, chief procurator of the special procuratorate.17 Among the thirty-five judges were at least twenty who had allegedly been persecuted during the Cultural

15. Zhongguo News Agency dispatch from Peking, November 21, 1980, cited in Wang Hsiao-tang, "Trial of Lin-Kiang Clique and Legalism," Chung-kung yen-chiu

Revolution, and most of the others were directly related to people who had suffered similarlyY In addition, the compostion of the tribunal clearly violated Article 105, paragraph 2, of the Criminal Procedure Law, which provides:

Trial at higher people's courts and the Supreme People's Court as the court of first instance, should be conducted by a collegiate tribunal composed of one to three judges two to four people's assessors.

In the trial of the ten defendants, no people's assessors participated in the proceedings. PRC jurist Zhang Youyu explained this deviation from normal procedure by saying that because the special court was not an ordinary court, there was no need to have people's assessors. 19 However, this deviation from the prescribed lawful procedure was not explicitly authorized by the appropriate legislative organ, the Standing Committee of the NPC, and its legality is at best questionable.

C. Exercise of the Right to Defense Under the Criminal Procedure Law, a defendant has the right to put forth a defense or to hire a lawyer to do so (Article 26); thus, when the special court served on Jiang Qing and the nine other defendants copies of the indictment on November 10, 1980, it also informed them that they had the right of defense and could hire lawyers to make a defense. 2° Five of the defendants did appoint or accept the court's appointment of defense counsel. Four defendants,

18. See James P. Sterba, "Former Chinese Leaders Given Long Prison Terms," The New York Times, January 26, 1981, p. A3. 19. See Wang Hsiao-tang, supra, note 15, p. 41. Zhang also said that among the judges appointed by the NPC Standing Committee were several persons from democratic parties and people's organizations, so that there was no need to appoint people's assessors. However, according to PRC law, people's assessors must be "elected" by the people, and not appointed by the NPC Standing Committee. See Teaching and Research Office of Beijing (Peking) Political-Legal Institute, Zhonghua renmin gonghequo xinshi susong fa jiangyi (Lectures on the criminal procedure law of the People's Republic of China), Peking: Qunzhong chupanshe, 1979, pp. 31-34. 20. "Trial of Jiang Qing and Others to Begin," Beijing Review, Vol. 23, No. 46 (November 17, 1980), p. 3. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 33 including Jiang Qing. 21 declined to accept the appointment of a defense lawyer, and one defendant, Zhang Chungqiao, sat mute throughout the entire court proceedings.22 In the course of the trial, the defense lawyers did not play any active role in protecting or defending the defendants. None of the defense lawyers objected to any of the prosecution's questions or asked to cross-examine a witness.23 The lawyers appeared to make some perfunctory remarks for their clients only on the day when the court concluded the debates concerning each defendant. Even then, the complete text of the remarks was not released and only a small part of their defense was published in the official newspaper. Three of the defendants, Jiang Tengjiao,24 Chen Boda25 and Wu Faxian,26 pleaded guilty; their defense lawyers primarily argued that their clients should be treated with leniency because of their guilty pleas. One defendant, Li Zuopeng, former first political commissar of the PLA Navy, denied some of the charges but admitted others. His lawyers argued that he had, on his own initiative, confessed some crimes during the pretrial phase and had shown a certain degree of repentance since the court investigation started. They therefore requested that the court mete out lighter punishment to Li Zuopeng according to law.27 , a former Polibureau member, acknowledged that he had committed mistakes but denied the allegation that he had controlled and used the to agitate an overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat. His defense lawyers, however, said that Yao was one of the main culprits of a counterrevolutionary clique led by Jiang Qing. They nevertheless challenged the charge in

21. However, according to Lui Cen Pu of the law faculty of University, Jiang Qing did ask two of her friends to represent her but they declined to do so because her insistence on violating the norms of Chinese courtroom procedure and decorum constituted "illegal demands." See David Quinto, ": A Closer Look," Harvard Law Record, Vol. 71, No. 10 (January 23, 1980l, p. 5. 22. See "Jurist Qiu Shaoheng," Foreign Broadcast Information Service, I, January 29, 1981, PRC, p. L3. 23. See Fox Butterfield, "Revenge Seems to Outweigh Justice at Chinese Trial," The New York Times, December 6, 1980, p. 2. 24. The debate on his case was concluded on December 1, 1980. See "Jiang Tengjiao Pleads Guilty," Beijing Review, Vol. 23, No. 50 (December 15, 1980l, p. 20. 25. The debate on his case was concluded on December 18, 1980. See "Report from the Court(sl, Special Court Continues Debates," Beijing Review, Vol. 23, No. 52 mecember 29, 1980), p. 18. 26. The debate on his case was concluded on December 18, 1980. See ibid., p. 20. 27. See ibid., p. 21. 34 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES the indictment that Yao had prepared public opinion for an armed rebellion in Shanghai; their challenge was based on facts which allegedly showed that the criminal conduct could not be established and that Yao should not be held legally responsible. 28 Y ao's lawyers did not plead leniency for him. Foro those. dEifendaQ.t~ who de.clined counsel 41-nd e:hose to defelld themselves, the complete texts of their statements in defense were not released. These defendants were denied the right to call witnesses they requested and were prevented from seriously cross-examining the prosecution witnesses.

D. Evaluation of Evidence According to the reports of Western correspondents, many of the prosecution witnesses read from notes while testifying. Moreover, many witnesses were either co-defendants or had been detained for years before the trial. The defense lawyers, however, failed to argue that these circumstances might have tainted the testimony or credibility of these witnesses. At the end of each day, the presiding judge read a text pronouncing the evidence sufficient and conclusive and adjourned the court until the next day and the next charge.29 To western observers, the procurators failed to link the defen­ dants directly to their alleged crimes in at least some charges. For instance, was accused of causing the death of 2,955 people and the persecution of 84,000 by giving a speech attacking a provincial party organization. While Chen did admit that he had "played a counterrevolutionary part" in the affairs, the procurators failed to establish or even indicate how the speech could have led to the alleged result.30 In the course of the trial of Jiang Qing, the procurators brought a group of witnesses to the court, each of whom alleged that in 1966 Jiang Qing ordered the ransacking of the homes of five of their former associates in the Shanghai film world of the 1930's for the purpose of finding and destroying letters, diaries and photographs about her earlier life as an actress. However, the entire body of evidence connecting Jiang with the break-ins was apparently based on hearsay. Even the general who organized the Shanghai searches testified that it was the wife of former Defense Minister Lin Biao, Ye Qun, now dead, who gave him the instructions. The

28. See ibid., pp. 18-19. 29. See supra note 23. 30. Ibid. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG oF FouR 35 assumption that Ye Qun was acting at the behest of Jiang, while possible, was not proved in court. 31 Moreover, the prosecution failed to establish a direct causal link between the defendants and the numerous deaths that took place during the Cultural Revolution. The court frequently referred vaguely to the "persecution to death" of many victims of the Cultural Revolution, but presented no direct evidence linking the Gang of Four with any of the deaths.32

E. Applicable Law and Other Miscellaneous Problems Concerning the Trials Article 9 of the Criminal Law provides:

Acts committed ... before the entry into force of this law [i.e., January 1, 1980] which were not considered as offenses under the law, decrees and policies at that time shall be dealt with according to the law, decrees and policies at that time. Those which were considered offenses under the law, decrees and policies at that time and are punishable according to Section 8 of Chapter IV of the General Principles of this law [i.e., prescription] shall be punished in accordance with the law, decrees and policies at that time. But if the act is not deemed an offense or the penalty for the offense is lighter under the present law, the present law shall apply.

In accordance with the above provisions, the court was required to 33 apply the 1951 Counterrevolutionary Act - the only important criminal legislation before 1979. In spite of the provisions of Article 9 of the Criminal Law, however, the special court decided to apply the

31. See Richard Berstein, '"Gang of 4' Trial Dramatic But Case Far From Proved," Washington Star, December 14, 1980, p. All. 32. Ibid. 33. The Act was translated in Cohen, supra note 5, pp. 299-302. It has only 21 articles and fails to define with reasonable precision the kinds of conduct that come within its reach. Moreover, it explicitly permits the use of analogy and the retroactive application of the Act to cover "pre-liberation" <1949) activities. For an analysis of how the PRC's criminal justice system worked before 1977, see generally Hungdah Chiu, "Criminal Punishment in : A Study of Some Province Documents," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 68, No. 3 (1977), pp. 374-398 and the sources cited therein. 36 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

1979 Criminal Law to acts committed before the effective date of the statute. This decision clearly violates one of the most basic maxims of criminal justice: nullum crimen sine lege (no crime without a pre-existing law making the act a crime). The rationale for the special court's retroactive application of the 1979 law was that the punishment under present law was lighter. This is hardly convincing, because there were no provisions in the 1951 Act on the alleged "framing and persecuting party and state leaders" or "usurping party authorities or seizing power", with which the defendants were charged. While the 1951 Act permits the use of analogy in applying the Act, there was no similar provision in the Act to justify those alleged activities as criminal.34 As a matter of fact, before 1976 none of the losers in any top-level power struggle in the PRC had ever been accused of violating the 1951 Counterrevolutionary Act. Assuming that it was appropriate to apply the newly enacted criminal law, the special court sustained almost all the charges in the indictments despite some serious problems in direct cause link

34. Cf the following explanation made by two PRC writers: "Some argued that the prerequisite for comparing the severity of punishment between the [Counterrevolutionary] Act and the Criminal Law is that the same offense be provided in both statutes. Only when an offense provided in both is the same, can one compare the severity of punishment between the two. If an offense is defined differently in the two statutes, then the two are not comparable. Now, only a small part of the counterrevolutionary provisions in the Act and the Criminal Law have the same contents, while most of them are not identical or even similar; therefore, it would be difficult to compare the two statutes to determine which one imposes more severe punishment [on the counterrevolutionary offense]. This view is hardly convincing. Whether an offense is the same in both statutes should be determined by looking to the substance of the offense as defined in both statutes and not merely by looking at the precise wording of the statutes. So far as the substance of an offense is concerned, it is submitted that the contents of the counterrevolutionary offense provided in the Act and the Criminal Law are in most part the same. Most of the provisions of the Act could be found in the corresponding provisions in the Criminal Law. Of course, the offenses provided in the Criminal Law are more complete and some offenses such as subversion against the government and splitting the country are not found in the Act. However, this situation should not obstruct us from making comparison . . . as the Act provided [in Article 16] that [a defendant] could be sentenced by applying analogous provisions in the Act and we could make comparison between the two statutes by analogy." See Jianpan Wu and Tao Ouyang, supra note 13, p. 5. Article 16 of the Counterrevolutionary Act provides: "Those who, with a counterrevolutionary purpose, commit crimes not covered by the provisions of the Act may be given punishment prescribed for crimes enumerated in the Act which are comparable to the crimes committed." THE TRIAL oF THE GANG OF FouR 37 between the defendants and the charges mentioned above. The most important charges dismissed by the special court was a charge against Jiang Qing that she plotted with three other members of the Gang of Four to persuade Mao not to appoint Mr. Deng Xiaoping as Premier when the late Premier Chou En- died in 1974. Even to Chinese legal minds, this charge is clearly a political rather than a criminal accusation and the special court in its judgment decided to drop this charge.35 This appears to be the only admirable part of the trials. Moreover, the trial was closed to the general public and to foreign correspondents, although the PRC had claimed that it was an "open trial" in the sense that "the various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, political parties, people's organizations, government organs and PLA can send representatives to attend the trials as observers."36 None of these observers, however, was permitted to make any comment on the trials, other than to praise the proceedings as fair. Moreover, the 30 Chinese media correspondents who had been invited to observe the trial were not allowed to issue any individual reports; all news concerning the trials was uniformly released by the . Finally, under the 1979 Criminal Procedure Law and even according to PRC practice before the implementation of this law, a person sentenced to long term imprisonment or death has the right of appeai.37 This right was expressly denied to the ten defendants because no appeal was permitted from the verdict of the special court.38 The rationale for not allowing appeal may have been that the trials were conducted by the highest judicial organ, so no appeal would be necessary; nevertheless, the abridgement of the right of appeal is without statutory foundation.

III. PoLITICAL ANALYSIS oF LEGAL DEFECTS IN THE PRoCEEDINGs Certain legal defects in the trials may have resulted from political considerations on the part of the Peking leadership. First,

35. See Fox Butterfield, "Mao's Widow Denies any Role in Plot," The New Y ark Times, November 27, 1980, p. A2 and "Mass Support for Sentences on Jiang Qing and Others," Beijing Review, Vol. 24, No.6 (February 9, 1981), pp. 6-7. 36. See "Principal Culprits ... " supra note 8, p. 4. 37. See Xing Zhong, "Judicial Organs and Judicial Procedure in China," Beijing Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (January 12, 1979), p. 32. 38. See "Principal Culprits ..." supra 8, p. 4. 38 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIEs SERIES the creation of a special court with no right of appeal and of a special procuratorate to handle the trials of the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao Clique may have been a political necessity. Because these trials were essentially political in nature, it was desirable to include among the judges and procurators representatives of all factions opposing the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao Clique, so as to demonstrate the unity of these factions against their common enemy. Moreover, the creation of a special court and a special procuratorate was the only way to ensure the participation of the military in the trials. Since no group in the PRC can retain power without the support of the military, their participation was politically essential. Second, because the trials were political in nature, the unity of the judges in conducting the trials and rendering the sentences was essential. This unit could be guaranteed only if each and every judge had a personal grievance against the defendants. While a judge in the PRC would rarely, if ever, refuse to follow a party directive as to the outcome of a judicial case, the PRC sought to avoid the slightest risk of possible diviation in these politically sensitive cases. For this reason, Article 23 of the Criminal Procedure Law requiring with­ drawal of judges and other interested persons was totally ignored. Third, the "open trial" requirement of the Criminal Procedure Law was not strictly followed simply because the PRC leaders did not want to allow the defendants, especially Jiang Qing, to present their cases to the public, anticipating that the defendants would try to shift the blame to Mao, attributing all their alleged crimes to Mao's instructions. Similarly, the Peking leadership denied the right of appeal so as to bring the cases to a speedy conclusion and thereby avoid undue publicity for the defendants. Thus, a policy of informa­ tion pervaded the entire proceedings and political considerations overrode legal safeguards and guarantees.

V. CoNCLUSIONS From the preceding analysis of the trial proceedings, it is clear that the trials were essentially a political proceeding and, in fact, an act of vengeance by the officials currently in power against the losers of a power struggle.39 It has been suggested that the Peking trials should be compared with the Nuremburg war crimes trial held by the Allies after World

39. This is the view expressed by most Western press. See e.g. "Guilty Verdict: The Gang of Four," Time, February 2, 1981, p. 66. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG OF FouR 39

War ll.40 However, there are several major differences between the two. First, in the Nuremburg trial, none of the judges and prosecutors was a direct victim of Nazi aggression or persecution. Second, the Nuremburg trial was genuinely open, while the Chinese trials were, in fact, closed to all but a limited few and were subject to highly restricted media coverage. Third, it was well known that it was Mao who had started the Cultural Revolution and who had issued many directives which caused the persecution of millions of people in China. In the course of the trials, however, Mao's responsibility was never reviewed by the Court, while his subordinates who im­ plemented his orders or instructions were held to bear full criminal responsibility.41 This is equivalent to saying that Hitler was not responsible for the start of the Second World War and the·resulting atrocities. Moreover, the Chinese trials never convincingly responded to Jiang Qing's defense that she had acted on the instructions of Chairman Mao and other top officials and that her deeds had been ratified by the then-sitting Community Party Central Committee.42 The trials were characterized as a showcase for China's recently enacted Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law and praised by Chinese jurist Qiu Shaoheng (known as Henry Chiu abroad) as the turning over of "a new leaf in the history of the administration of justice in China."43 There is little doubt that the trials were of immense public and political importance. However, the record belies the assertion that China has entered a new era in the administration of criminal justice. Consistent failures to observe individual rights and procedural rules raise serious questions as to the legitimacy of the proceedings and of the verdicts handed down after over four years of preparation and two months of trials.

40. See Butterfield, supra note 4. 41. On Mao's close relations with the ten defendants, see an interesting report in "Mao and the Two Gangs," Inside China Mainland, December 1980, pp. 8-12. 42. See Bradley K. Martin, "Despite Guilty Verdict, Jiang Remained Defiant," The Sun, January 26, 1981, p. A2. See also Ding Wan, "Tenuous Legal Basis for Peking 'Big Trial'," T'ang T'ai (Contemporary Monthly), No. 3 (November 1980), pp. 28-30. 43. See supra note 22. 40 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STuDIES SERIES Chapter III

IMAGES AND REALITY: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FOUR

By Lillian Craig Harris*

An examination of the Gang of Four trial from a human rights perspective confronts us immediately with the Procrustean dilemma of whether Chinese society can fairly be measured against an essentially western concept. Chinese society seeks to offer individuals basic rights to life, happiness, health and opportunity. But for the Chinese the concept of society as a whole takes precedence over the rights of individuals. "The notion that individuals might have rights against their social group, society or the state [is] an utterly alien concept."' Thus, what would be an obvious human rights violation in might not necessarily be any such thing in Shanghai. A related problem involves Chinese value systems. Revenge, anger and hatred against "untruth" and "evil" are accepted virtues in both Chinese tradition and in the lexicon of the Chinese Communist Party.2 But the Christian tradition which fathered the present Western definition of human rights finds glorification of such concepts and motives at least theoretically both repugnant and foreign. Can we judge the Chinese according to rules which violate their basic spiritual and philosophical concepts? On the other hand, can we, in the words of , fail "to apply standards of common sense and common decency to the analysis of the Maoist experiment?" Can we adhere to the "remarkable doctrine" held by some that the Chinese "were so different from the rest of mankind that they had no need for human rights and no desire for individual justice?"3 Further, how can anyone really measure a totalitarian gov­ ernmental system for the white hat and leisure suit of "human rights"? Beijing simply does not dress that way. The party's

* Views expressed here are author's. 1. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1979. Washington, D. C.: US Government Printing Office, 1980, p. 437. 2. Cf. "People's Daily on Gang Trial"

4. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1979, p. 437. 5. June Teufel Dreyer, "Limits of the Permissible in China," Problems of Communism, November-December 1980, p. 63. 6. "Trials Based on Socialist Principles" (People's Daily, December 22, 1980! FBIS, December 23, 1980. L-6. 42 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

Human Rights in China Recent developments in China suggest that the human rights situation is gradually improving. This improvement is closely tied to the success of far-reaching reforms introduced under the leadership of Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, reforms which have encompassed party and governmental structure and practice, civil and political liberties, the judicial and legal systems and economic and social practice. Restrictions on religious practice have been relaxed, for example, and there is movement toward the administration of minority districts in ways that take greater account of ethnic customs, and special circumstances. The September 1980 session of the National People's Congress formalized a series of Dengist reforms, including the decentralization of decision making, strengthened the role of law and, as a signal of "nothing to hide" to the world, opened the NPC session to foreign observation. The 12th CCP Congress, expected this year, will probably place greater limits on official powers. But serious human rights problems and violations continue in China and failure of the Dengist reform program could bring a return to greater reliance on ideology and mass campaigns against political opponents. The extent of social unrest revealed by a brief period of relaxed restrictions caused the September 1980 NPC to rescind the "four big rights" - to speak out freely, air views freely, hold great debates, and write big character posters-rights, which had been: guaranteed by the state constitution of 1978.7 "Despite signs of improvement, the Chinese media and officials still condemn 'human rights' as a 'bourgeois slogan' without any relevance for China today."8 Although China has shown greater willingness to discuss human rights in the international arena (at the UN, for example), Beijing has continued to assert that

. . . each country's own legal provisions affecting the rights of citizens are bound to differ and are internal matters and that, moreover, individual freedom must not be detrimental to the national public interest.9

Several factors restrict "a fair and disciplined inquiry" into the actual conditions of human rights inside China, including the

7. Beijing Review, March 10, 1980. Vol. 23, No. 10. p. 10. 8. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1979, p. 438. 9. Ibid., p. 440. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 43 different Chinese definition of human rights, blurring of the line between the formal and informal process in the Chinese legal system and difficulty in "striking a balance in our analysis between quantitative and qualitative aspects" of Chinese human rights conditions. 10 The situation is further complicated by lack of evidence on labor reform practices and treatment of political prisoners. "It is impossible to calculate the exact number of inmates in labor reform camps; estimates by former convicts vary from several thousand to a million."11 Although execution for political crimes appears to have ended, most people including the Chinese certainly question whether Jiang Qing's death sentence was the result of criminal behavior alone. In sum, the present , human, rights position of the Chinese government appears to be that people have the right to choose their government (as they are said to have done in 1949), but that government is then free to exercise control without undue internal - and certainly withqut,external- interference ..

The Political Basis for the Trial Why, however, did Beijing try the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing groups and why at this time? Several answers are immediately evident. On January 26, the People's Daily hailed the successful conclusion of the trials as a "great victory for the socialist system," declaring that China can now, with a demonstrably established legal system, "effectively defend the people's democracy, safeguard political stability and unity, and ensure the success of the four modernizations."12 This statement reveals a desire to:

(1) Reinforce the moderate (Dengist) leadership; (2) Show leadership commitment to political stability through strict, universal application of law; and (3) Motivate citizens to implement the new economic and political reforms without fear.

Although it appeared to be the Cultural Revolution, personified by the Gang of Four, which was on trial, dee!>' seated. political- issues 10. Samuel S. Kim. China, the and World Order. Princeton, New Jersey: Press, 1979, p. 484. 11. Fox Butterfield, Orange County Register, January 4, 1981. 12. "The Just Court Verdict," !People's Daily editorial in Chinese, January 26, 1981, pp. 1 and 4) FBIS, January 26, 1981. L-27. 44 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES which relate to the governing of China were even more profoundly involved. Two issues, modernization and party reform, stand out as the major sources of contention in the current Chinese leadership struggle. The moderates, who pushed for the trial, hoped ultimately to discredit Mao as well as the officials who benefited from the Cultural Revolution and to enhance their programs of separating the roles of party and government, promoting greater decentralization and downgrading ideology in favor of the pragmatic and the technical. In the compromise reached as a prelude to the trials, the Dengists apparently agreed to avoid dealing publicly with the issue of Mao's responsibility. However, evidence presented at the trials, in particular the statements of Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan severely strained these artificial limitations and further complicated relations within the CCP. On December 22, the People's Daily published the harshest indictment to date of Mao's role in the Cultural Revolution, blaming him officially for the first time for mistakes which caused China "grave misfortunes."13 A secondary rationale for the trials was the underlying need for scapegoats for the wrongs of the Cultural Revolution, an era which probably left few Chinese families unscathed by political or economic loss or by humiliation, injury or even death of a family member. The anger of the Chinese people has been in real measure in need of placating. Publication of long lists of names of victims furthered the atmosphere of personal vendetta. 14 Nor was the moderate leadership itself free from the need for this cathartic experience of self vindication, as repeated references to injustices done to such notables as Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi made clear. The leftists could only hope to gain by draining off some popular discontent through using Jiang Qing as a scapegoat in the endeavor to slow down the demythologizing of Mao. The trial represented a triumph for the Dengists, however, at least in the sense of its implications for Hua Guofeng. There were unconfirmed reports that Hua had agreed at a CCP politburo meeting in late October or early November to step down as party chairman in exchange for his opponents' agreement to delete several politically explosive charges

13. "People's Daily Comments on Trial of Lin.Jing Clique" (Beijing People's Daily in Chinese, December 22, 1980, pp. 1 and 5) FBIS, December 24, 1980. L-6. 14. "Text of Indictment" (Beijing Xinhua in English, November 20, 1980l FBIS, November 20, 1980. L-6. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 45 from the Gang of Four indictment.15 Nonetheless, the extremely defensive tone of the December 22 indictment of Mao in the People's Daily suggests that Deng and his group may not have gotten from the trial all that they had hoped for. The possibility that some Chinese may have been reinforced in their cynicism toward their government - particularly as the death sentences were not carried out - was swept aside by publicity given to the trial as an event which "gives the people great satisfaction."16 Opportunity to provide this satisfaction was hardly to be passed up by those Chinese leaders who found themselves in position to settle their personal scores while furthering their political objectives. Whether the people are truly satisfied or the intended political objectives met remains unclear.

Charges and Procedures: An Effort to Distort Reality? Several aspects of the trial were clearly in violation of the internationally applied definition of human rights, although these aspects were not always contrary to traditional Chinese practices. These included:

(1) Incarceration for several years before trial or indictment. (2) The officially sponsored pre-trial buildup which pilloried the defendants before the verdict was pronounced. (3) The foregone conclusion of a guilty verdict, including public statements "that death sentences probably awaited some of the defendants."17 (4) Evidence of interference by party officials in the judicial process and indications that party officials played key roles in preparing the trials. (5) Prosecution of the defendants - Jiang Qing in particular - in a manner demonstrative of that very crime of which they were most frequently accused: persecution and deprivation of human rights for reasons of political power and personal vendetta.

15. "China's Hua Now Expected to Quit Soon," Washington Post, , 1980. 16. "Trial by 900 Million People" FBIS, November 24, 1980. L-9. 17. David Bona via, "Give Them Rice and Circuses," Far Eastern Economic Review, December 5, 1980. p. 12. 46 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

From the outset authoritative comment sought to present the trial's goals as punishment of the strictly criminal behavior of a small group of living defendants with the vastly more sensitive political judgments of the Cultural Revolution left for CCP deliberation. Given continuing disagreement among the Chinese leadership over the merits of the Cultural Revolution - at the center of which is, of course, Mao Zedong's personal culpability - this tactic can only be seen as a compromise making a virtue out of a necessity. The four major indictments - plotting to overthrow the govern­ ment, false charges, persecution of and suppression of the human rights of others, and plotting of assassination and of armed rebellion - are, to be sure, all internationally cognizable as illegal and punishable by law. 18 Nonetheless, persistent official efforts to divide the defendants' crimes from their political motivations were not convincing, particularly when it was publicly acknowledged that "the activities of even the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counterrevolutionary cliques were not all counter-revolutionary crimes, some of them were mistakes," i.e. errors arising "from a deviation of subjective recogni­ tion of the objective world and action that goes against objective laws."19 This measure of the "objective world" and its "objective laws" is, of course, Marxist doctrine as the present leadership defines it. And the basic reason, as most observers recognized, why such mistakes could not be publicly debated was that, "during his later years, Comrade Mao Zedong made mistakes, especially in initiating and leading the Cultural Revolution."20 Careful attention was given, nonetheless, to refuting suspicions and charges from some quarters that the trial was actually political in nature. Only counterrevolutionary crimes and "not . . . mistakes in party work and regarding the line, would be investigated this time," the People's Daily pointed out just before the trial began.21 "Tens of thousands of people were killed as a result [of frameups and persecution]," the People's Daily claimed a few days later, "What kind of mistake in political line was that?"22 This theme was continued

18. "Text of Indictment," FBIS, November 20, 1980. L-4. 19. "People's Daily Special Commentator Mentions Mao's Mistakes," (People's Daily of December 22, 1980) FBIS, Dec. 23, 1980. L-4. 20. Ibid. 21. "People's Daily on Gang Trial," (Beijing People's Daily in Chinese, November 18, 1980, p. 4) FBIS, November 18, 1980. L-4. 22. "Trial by 900 Million People," (People's Daily editorial, November 22, 1980) FBIS, November 24, 1980. L-8, THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 47 throughout, providing insight into Chinese sensitivity towards both international and local belief that politics as well as criminal behavior stood in the dock. It was publicly denied that "a difference of political opinions" was involved and affirmed that the defendants were being tried for "extremely grave counterrevolutionary crimes, not what some people called mistakes in work."23 Efforts were also made to avoid the appearance of kangaroo court proceedings. Publicity surrounding the trial emphasized that the rule oflaw prevailed. On January 27, the People's Daily claimed that the trial had been conducted without outside interference in the judicial process: "Any eventuality was adjudicated according to the law by the judges, and no one had the right or ability to interfere."24 The authorities in Beijing steadfastly refuted charges that guilt of the defendants was predetermined25 and post-trial interviews with jurors and judges have highlighted satisfaction that justice was carried out. Nonetheless, evidence indicates behind the scenes manipulation both before and during the hearings. It is probable that the verdicts and perhaps even the sentences were determined by party leaders before the trial began. But controversy and contention continued while the trial was in session. Evidence given during the trial and the refusal of Jiang Qing to play the role assigned to her undoubtedly exacerbated the intraparty debate, particularly over Mao's culpabil­ ity, as the controversy became more public. Failure to begin the trials or even to announce the charges until the defendants had been in custody for from four to almost ten years is itself indicative of profound controversy at the highest levels and fear of judging the actions of the accused on the basis of unfiltered evidence. Even the disclaimers are sometimes illustrative. The People's Daily admitted that, "many of the complicated details had been investigated by the party earlier," but claimed "they were re-investigated and re-examined by the public security organizations."25 Extended recesses and the nearly month-long delay between verdicts and sentencing also suggests controversy and party maneuvering. Certainly related to this undercurrent of contention

23. "Beijing Radio" (Beijing Domestic Service in Mandarin, January 25, 1981. Station Commentary: "A Major Victory for the Socialist Legal System) FBIS, January 27, 1981. F-5. 24. "Reaction to Lin-,Jiang Clique's Verdict Continues"

Jiang Qing: Images and Reality The case of Jiang Qing, the only woman on trial and the arch villain of the proceedings, needs to be examined in greater detail from the human rights perspective. There are clear indications that at least part of the rage against Jiang arose from the perception that she had no right to have used her position as Mao's wife to traffic in political affairs, to interfere in the operations of government and to pursue, as Xinhua put it, "her fond dream of becoming an

26. "Beijing Ribao Decries Interference in Court Cases" !Hong Kong AFP in English, January 23, 1981) FBIS, January 26, 1981. L-28. 27. "People's Daily: Trials Based on Socialist Principles" (Beijing Xinhua in English, December 22, 1980) FBIS, December 23, 1980. L-6. 28. "Beijing Television Report"

'empress'."31 The perception is that unfair advantage was taken using femining wiles. A pre-trial publicity campaign against Jiang Qing included a serialized biography in Hong Kong's PRC-controlled Hsin Wan Pao.32 Unfolding like a soap opera, the account traces Jiang's early insinuation of herself, a low-born actress, into the confidences and bedrooms of the mighty. She is presented as the personification of all that a woman traditionally should not be: corrupt, manipulative, a behind-the-scenes schemer who had not her husband's or society's interests at heart but her own political ascendency. In contrast to her behavior are references to the faithful Wang Guangmei, wife of Liu Shaoqi, who stood by her husband in his misfortunes, did not seek to elevate herself at his expense and who now, ironically, has been rewarded by the party by placement in an honorable, if largely sym­ bolic, public position. The picture of Jiang which has emerged over the years is of a highly intelligent and unpleasant woman obsessed with power. Although it will never be possible to learn the full details of Jiang's motivation and activities, it is probable that she did single out for particular acrimony those others surrounding her husband who vied with her for authority and position. She probably also paid particular and petty attention to persecution of their wives, as is publicly claimed.33 It is difficult to believe, however, that had Jiang Qing been merely a close associate of Mao and not his wife that the attacks on her character would now be so vitriolic. Some Chinese recognized this situation, as indicated in one exchange in Beijing Wanbao. Two articles, which appeared in the Beijing Wanbao's "Talk of a Hundred Schools" column during the trial, discuss the sexist approach to political affairs with obvious application to Jiang Qing. Neither discusses the practical inavailability of power to most women either in traditional or modem China, making female power plays by necessity manipulative and devious. But, dealing in historical

31. "Xinhua 'Jottings' on Jiang Qing" (Beijing Xinhua Domestic Service in Chinese, December 7, 1980. "Why Are the Masses to Blame?" by Li Fengl FBIS, December 9, 1980. L-10. 32. "Unofficial History of Jiang Qing"

34. "Beijing Wa~ l)ao on Wo~en's Interference in St~~e Aff~irs (~eijing ~.an. Bao in Chinese, November 27, 1980, p. 3 in "Talk of a Hundred Schools" Column by Zhu Xiaoxun) FBIS, December 16, 1980. L-13. 35. Ibid. 36. "Beijing Wan Bao on Attitude to Concubines, Eunuchs" (Beijing Wan Bao in Chinese, December 9, 1980, p. 3 in "Talk of a Hundred Schools Column by Lin Hanbiaol FBIS, December 23, 1980. L-6. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 51 vilifying Chairman Mao Zedong" and "I implemented and defended Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line."37 It became obvious, in other words, that, for some Chinese, Jiang was a substitute for Mao, available for punishment although the real Mao was inaccessi­ ble both for political reasons and because he had had the final deviousness to escape by going to visit Marx. However, it would seem evident that the leadership's unwilling­ ness to try Mao himself so prejudiced the case against Jiang Qing that no fair trial was possible. She, whatever her culpability, was forced in effect to bear a large part of his. Her efforts, moreover, to strengthen her defense by presenting evidence that she and Mao were of one mind were strictly limited, although Jiang had insisted on serving as her own defense counsel. Xinhua reported that "Jiang Qing also repeatedly made the request that evidence and witnesses 3 irrelevant to the case be presented in court." " Little imagination is needed to surmise what such evidence and witnesses would have uncovered. Jiang herself, finally, was not adverse to chiding her tormenters on the basis of her sex. She is reported to have said "shamelessly" that, "During wartime, I was the only female comrade accompanying Chairman Mao Zedong at the frontline. Where were you hiding?"39 The official report could only say that people laughed at this preposterous statement, adding sternly that "it is futile for Jiang Qing to attempt to cover-up her counterrevolutionary crimes by using Chairman Mao's high prestige."40

The Trial as a Negative Propaganda Event Although for several reasons the trial of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing groups may have been necessary from an internal Chinese viewpoint, the overall immediate impact on the rest of the world, the West in particular, has been negative. The event has generally been seen as a show trial. The San Diego Tribune, for example, ran a cartoon of two middle-class Americans watching the trial on televi­ sion with wide incredulous eyes, as one remarked to the other: "China has accused the Gang of Four of shooting J.R."41

37. "Xinhua Account of Jiang Qing's Final Hearing" !Beijing Domestic Service in Chinese, December 29, 19801 FBIS, January 2. 1981. L-1. 38. Ibid. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid. 41. San Diego Tribune, late November 1980. 52 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

By Chinese practice, what is defined as a trial is the equivalent of a sentencing hearing in the United States. Counsel acts as advocate for mercy but does not contest the guilt of the defendent (as Jiang Qing attempted to do). Media and official statements assuming guilt of the defendants contributed, therefore, to a Western percep­ tion of an Alice in Wonderland trial in which the Queen of Hearts screamed: "Off with his head." China may also have damaged its credibility as a rational power by dredging up vivid horror scenes from the Cultural Revolution era, thus reviving a radical image which Beijing has for ten years sought to overcome. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review:

China's biggest show trial has degenerated into the judicial bullying of decrepit former military commanders ... There is an increasingly uneasy feeling that the trial shows how little the official professions of fair-mindedness, rules of evidence and impartiality are being applied, less than a year after the new criminal code and code of criminal judicial procedure came into effect._42

Publication of the Jiang Qing biography, as well as other publicity surrounding the trial, spotlighted a central question asked by both outsiders and by the Chinese themselves. The picture of Mao which emerges is that of a gullible leader so preoccupied by lofty ideas that he was easily duped into marriage by a power-hungry and devious minor camp follower. Whether or not some of those who produced and published the Jiang Qing biography intended this result, is not clear. But a central question remains unanswered: What sort of mature leadership could be expected from a man so naive and, even if he was not naive, was he not then aware of who Jiang Qing really was and what she was doing? Extensive television coverage and a well-orchestrated propagan­ da campaign brought the drama of the trial before the world. However, as the Far Eastern Economic Review remarked at the trial's opening, "What is certain is that the Chinese public and the world at large are being given a highly selective account; nobody expected anything else."•3 Referring to the trial as "a Nuremberg-style

42. David Bonavia, op. cit., p. 12. 43. David Bonavia, "In the Limelight Again," Far Eastern Economic Review, November 28, 1980, p. 13. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG oF FouR 53 tribunal," a Washington Post correspondent wrote that "the trial was served up in short, carefully edited television segments that are believed to have been screened by ruling Politboro members."« Chinese attendees at the trial were, moreover, carefully selected to represent a cross-section of the Chinese people and foreigners were excluded from certain sessions on the basis that "state secrets" were to be discussed. 45 Nonetheless, despite skepticism on the part of some Chinese as well as foreigners, the trial was, according to certain foreign press reports from Beijing, "well received by a Chinese public hungry for revenge. Large crowds gathered around the few community television sets, and the official press frequently carried letters by outraged viewers urging death for the defendants."46 Publicity surrounding the trial served the additional purpose of setting the stage for the provincial trials of Gang of Four followers promised for later this year. Thousands of "leftists" await trial in China's prisons on various Cultural Revolution related charges and some sixty more trials are expected:7 The atmosphere surrounding the Beijing trial and the sentences handed down are expected to set the tone for these secondary trials, during which severe human rights abuses could occur. Amnesty International reported executions of alleged supporters of the Gang of Four in 197748 and persons less powerful than Jiang Qing can probably expect less leniency. The Chinese leadership, however, clearly recognizes the extreme sensitivity of the situation and can be expected to move swiftly to suppress any mob action against the radicals and perhaps even any blatantly abusive sentencing. Of the 38 million CCP members, nearly half were recruited during the Cultural Revolution and thus carry a "leftist" label. Therefore, although the Dengists are dedicated to party reform which must inevitably involve removal of many of these persons, a mass purge would be much too dangerous. This need to avoid provocative action is perhaps also related to press reports that

44. Michael Weisskopf, "Jiang Will Face Execution Threat for Two Years," Washington Post, January 25, 1981. 45. "Xinhua Interviews Jurist" (Beijing Xinhua in English, November 21, 1980l FBIS, November 24, 1980. L-4. 46. Weisskopf, op. cit. 47. Bryan Johnson, "Jiang's Fate Delays Verdict from Trial of Chinese Radicals," Washington Post, January 15, 1981. 48. The Death Penalty: An Amnesty International Report. London: Amnesty International Publications, 1979, p. 77. 54 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

Vice Chairman Deng himself was among those who opposed the death sentence for Jiang Qing.49 Creation of martyrs would obviously play into the hands of the leftists.

Conclusion Preliminary assessment of the trial indicates that the hand of Beijing's moderates has been strengthened against those who prefer "red over expert." If this is so, the chances for political stability and economic reform in China have been increased. And there are other benefits to having the Gang of Four trial behind us. By having exposed the Cultural Revolution as even a greater travesty than had previously been imagined, China appears to have taken a step toward a more honest appraisal of its history. Much Chinese media comment on the trial emphasized the inevitable verdict of history on evil doers. 50 Even if largely intended to discredit political opponents, certain historical realities have been accepted. This in itself is useful and commendable. It is also a move in the right direction that China now seeks to portray itself as conducting the affairs of society and government by measurement against legal, as opposed to ideological, criteria. An effort was made to make the trial public. The signal was given that party and government officials would henceforth be publicly responsi­ ble for their actions. This, too, is commendable. The trial has, furthermore, benefited the outside world not only with new insight into recent Chinese history and the workings of China's government, but possibly with increased sympathy for the aspirations of China's people. Beyond the political motivations for the trial was a tremendous yearning for "justice" on the part of millions of Chinese. In this sense the trial, though conducted from mixed motives and along lines which violated the western, and in some instances Chinese, sense of criminal justice, may be a step toward greater individual freedom in China. There is, of course, evidence of continuing mass cynicism about the government's motives and the permanence of present standards.S1 Some even fear that the Gang or its radical supporters could return to power - a fear which will

49. Johnson, op. cit. 50. "The Just Court Verdict" {People's Daily. January 26. 1981 I FBIS, January 26. 1981. L-24; "People's Daily on Gang Trial" !People's Daily, November 18. 19801 FBIS. Nobember 18, 1980. L-4; etc. 51. Dreyer, op. cit., p. 59. THE TRIAL oF THE GANG OF FouR 55 probably remain as long as the Gang of Four or any of those who suffered because of its actions still live. Nonetheless, for millions of the persecuted and disadvantaged, the trial may have served as a necessary catharsis, and may have helped the present leadership reassure the people that arbitrary violation of basic human rights will not in future be allowed with impunity.52 In providing insights to China's inner dynamics, the trial may also have given other states a broader basis upon which to consider future relations with China. There are tremendous pitfalls in attempting to use human rights as a major yardstick to measure how far to support another government. But we can use human rights criteria to assess how closely we can identify one society with another. The trial gives opportunity to reconsider the western euphoria over China's re-emergence on the world scene which has colored so much information about China in the past several years. We need to steer a straight path between those over zealous persons who condemn China and its manner of doing things and those willing to excuse all excesses in the name of brotherhood or from fear of losing their own special privileges of access. A Washington Post editorial about the trial warned against giving China the benefit of the doubt "that Chinese do not even claim for themselves ... Americans do neither themselves nor the Chinese a favor by smiling on such fictions. "53 Finally, despite the obvious political context of the trial and its failure to adhere to the standards of Western justice, can we conclude that justice was grossly miscarried? It would appear that even if the defendants were guilty of only a fraction of the crimes of which they were accused, they deserved the verdicts which were handed down - if not those which will be carried out. The major failure appears to have been the inability for political reasons to place Mao himself on trial, make a clean breast of it and go on from there. And the major threat of the trial appears to be the ominous tranche of secondary trials now expected. It is there that immoderation and violations of human rights reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution era itself remain possible.

52. "Public Reaction" IBeijing Domestic Service in Chinese. January 26. 19811 FBIS, January 27, 1981. L-7. 53. "Show Trial in Peking," Washington Post, December 7, 1980. 56 CoNTEMPORARY AsiAN STUDIES SERIES

But for the present a cloud has been lifted, a roadblock to progress at least parl~y removed. The Chinese people appear relieved that the long awaited event has occurred. And we on the outside have been given both a window on the past and present human rights situation in China and some assurance that the Chinese leadership recognizes the need to place greater emphasis on the basic human rights of its one billion citizens. THE TRIAL OF THE GANG OF FouR 57

DOCUMENTS (Note: Documents 1 and 2 are reproduced from Great Trial in Chinese History, The Trial of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Cliques, Nov. 1980- Jan. 1981, Peking: New World Press, 1981.) the "great cultural revolution" and, taking advantage of thl'ir positions and the power at theit· dispo.sal, framed and persecuted Communist in Party and state lcade:-s a C1 premeditated way in thcit· attempts to usurp Pa1·ly lcndcl·­ 00 INDICTMENT ship and state power and overthrow the political power of the dictatorship of the proletariat. They 'did this by re­ OF sorting to all kinds of intrigues and using every possible means, legal or illegal, overt or covert, by pen or by gun. THESPECIAL PROCURATORATE UNDER In September 1971, after the plot of Lin Biao, Ye Qun, THESU-PREME PEOPLE'S PROCURATORATE OF Lin Liguo, Zhou Yuchi and Jiang Tengjiao to murder Chairman Mao Zedong and stage an armed counter­ C'i THEPEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA revolutionary coup d'etat failed, Lin Biao and others de­ 0 ~ fected and fled the country, and the counter-revolutionary t"l clique headed by him was exposed and crushed. The a: Te Jian Zi No. 1 "0 counter-revolutionary gang of four consisting of Jiang 0 Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hong­ To the Special Court Under the ~ 0 ;l:l Supreme People's Court of the wen, with Jiang Qing at the head, continued its conspira­ 0 >( People's Republic of China: torial counter-revolutionary activities until it was exposed c0 > The Ministry o! Public Security of the People's Re­ and smashed in October 1976. The Lin Biao and Jiang Ul ~ public of China, after concluding its investigation, has Qing counter-revolutionary cliques brought untold dis.1s­ ;j ;; ters to our country and nation. c+ z referred the case of the plot of the Lin Biao and Ji~~.ng H Qin3 counter·r~volutionarycliques to overthrow the The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolulionnry ~ political power of the dictatorship of the proletariat to cliques committed the following crimes: t:l the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Re­ [;;j public of China for examination and prosecution. Ul r:n Having examined the case, the Special Procuratorate I t"l Under the Supreme People's Procuratorate confirms that :::! t"l the principal. culprits of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Frame-Up and Persecution of Party and Ul counter-revolutionary cliques, namely, Lin Biao, Jiang State Leaders and Plotting to Overthrow Qing, Kang Sheng,. Zhang Chunqiao, ~aoWenyunn, W:mg the Political Power of the Dictatorship 1-Iongwc:-n,Chen Doda, Xic Fuzhi, Ye Qun, Huang Yong­ sheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopcng, Qiu Huizuo, Lin Liguo, of the Proletariat Zhou Yuchi and Jiang Tcngjiao, acted in collusion during To overthrow the political power of the dictatorship of 149 the proletariat, the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter­ revolutionary cliques framed and persecuted Party and

150 state leaders and leading cadres in all walks of lift.> in a Liu Shaoqi was still Chairman of the People's Republic of premeditated way. China (P.R.C.) and was re-elected to the Standing Com­ (1) They instigated the persecution of Party and state mittee o! the Political Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Com­ leaders at all levels in their attempts to seize leadership. mittee, Lin Biao instr·ucted Ye Qun to summon Lei Yin::t­ On January 23, 1967, Lin Biao plotted the usurpation of !u twice to her presence, fil·st on August 11 and then 1:!. power, saying, "All power, be it at the top, middle or Lei Ying!u was then deputy director of the Operations lower levels, should be seized. In some cases, this should Department of the Headquarters of the General Staff of be done sooner, in others later." "This may be done at the Chinese People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.). She pro­ the top or lower levels, or done in co-ordination at both vided him verbally with material containing false charg~s levels." He also instigated the persecution of leading fabricated by Lin Biao and herself against Liu Shaoqi and cadres. He said, "Put some of them in custody, cap some instructed him to put these charges in writing. On August with tall paper hats, and search and ransack the homes 13, Lin Biao read what Lei had written. At his residence, ~ ::c of others." "It is necessary to use measures such as the Lin told Lei the next day that "it willloQk more political" t"l 'jet aircraft' (forcing a person to bow with both hands if Lei would write an accompanying lelter addressed to ~ raised over his back, like the swept-back wings of a jet ;.l Lin Biao and Chairman Mao Zedong, so that Lin could ): plane - Tr.) against people like , , write his comments on the letter before forwarding it to r Dingyi and ." the Chairman. On the same day, Lin Bia,o sent Lei Ying­ 0 '>:! Zhang Chunqiao said in Shanghai on January 22, 1967, 's letter together with his material incriminating Liu ..., "Our aim in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Shaoqi to Jiang Qing for her to "consider forwarding" ::c has always been to seize power, from the grass roots to them to the Chairman. • t"l p the c~ntralorganizations, including the powers of the On the afternoon of December 18, 1006, Zhang Chun­ > Party and the government, as well as in the financial, qiao met privately with Kuai Dafu, a Qinghua University z cultural and other fields." "We must seize power every­ student, in the reception room at the we'&t gate of Zhong­ C'l 0 where." With regard to veteran cadres he said in Shang­ nanhai, Beijing. He said, "That coupleoof persons in the '>:! hai in April, "All of them are bad" and "None shall be Central Committee who put forward7 the reactionary "%j spared!" From 1967 to 1975, he said on many other oc­ bourgeois line have not yet surrendered.- ... You young 0 c:: casions in Shanghai and Beijing that "the great cultural revolutionary fighters should unite, carry forward your ;.l revolution" meant "a change of dynasty." In plotting to thoroughgoing revolutionary spirit and flog the cur that usurp power and effect a "change of dynasty," the Lin has fallen into the water. Make their very names stink. Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques laid Don't stop half way." Incited by Zhang, Kuai organized bare their counter-revolutionary objective of overthrow­ a demonstration in Beijing on December 25. The demon­ ing the political power of the proletarian dictatorship. strators put up slogans and big-character posters, handed (2) They brought false charges against and persecuted out leaflets and shouted demagogically,: ~'Downwith Liu Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China Shaoqi!" and "Down with Deng XiaopiRg!" and Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Com­ In , Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng and Chen Boda 01 \0 munist Party of China (C.P.C.). In , when decided without authorization that Liu Shaoqi should be

151 152 repudiated and struggled against. Benyu, a member the Provincial Normal College in Beijing who was of the "Cultural Revolution Group Under the C.P.C. Cen­ critically ill. Zhang was tortured to death. In order to tral Committee," organized a "rally for repudiating and frame Liu Shaoqi as a "renegade," they extorted confes­ (j) struggling against Liu Shaoqi" on July 18 of the same sions from Ding Juequn, who worked with Liu Shaoqi in 0 year; th~rc::;id~ncc of Liu Shaoqi und Wang Guangmei the workers' movement in in 1927, and Meng was searched and ransacked and the two were physically Yongqian, who was arrested with Liu Shaoqi in harassed. During July and , Kang Sheng, Xie in 1929. On September 25, 1967, Ding declared in prison. Fuzhi and Qi Benyu incited people to organize a "front­ that the confession he was compelled to write "does not line for getting Liu Shaoqi out of ," surround strictly conform to facts." Between June 15, 1967 and the place and attempt to break into the State Council. March 18, 1969, Meng wrote 20 statements in prison de­ (") Jiang Qing assumed direct control of the "group for in­ claring that what he had. written about Liu Shaoqi under 0 quiring into the special case of Liu Shaoqi and Wang duress "was mere fabrication" and should be withdrawn. ~ Guangmei" and directed its work in collusion with Kang But all their requests to make corrections to their state­ t'l a: Sheng and Xie Fuzhi. They rigged up false evidence by ments and all their appeals were withheld and not allowed "CC to be submitted to higher authorities. Liu Shaoqi died 0 extorting confessions through torture in order to vilify g; Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei as "renegades," "enemy . as a result of persecution. ::0 agents" and "counter-." From May to (3) Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng cooked up false -< charges to persecute Members of the Eighth Central Com­ !l> October 1967, acting on her own, Jiang Qing took the {fl deCision to arrest and imprison , Deputy Gov­ mittee of the C.P.C. On July 21, 1968, Kang Sheng wrote ernor of Hebei Province; Yang Chengzuo, a professor at a strictly confidential letter. On the envelope he wrote >z the China People's University in Beijing; Wang Guangen, "Important. To be forwarded immediately to and per­ ~ a resident of (originally assistant manager of the sonally opened by Comrade Jiang Qing." In the letter, c:: !ormer Fengtian Cotton Mill); Liu Shaoqi's former cook 0 he wrote, "Enclosed please find the name list you have Eii Hao Miao; and seven others. When Yang Chengzuo be­ asked for." On this list drawn up by Kang Sheng in his r:n ill, en came critically Jiang Qing said to the group for in­ own handwriting, 88 of the 193 Members and Alternate t'l quiring into the special case, "Step up the interrogation Members of the Eighth Central Committee of the· C.P.C. ::0 c;; to squeeze out of him what we need before he dies." Yang ·were falsely charged as "enemy agents," "renegades," r:n Chengzuo died as a result of persecution. So was Wang "elements having illicit relations with foreign countries" Guangen. On October 23, 1967, Xie Fuzhi said to the spe­ ot· "anti-Party elements." Another seven were classified cial case group, "It is necessary to be firm and ruthless a:. havimz been temporarily "removed from their posts but in interrogation. . .. It is necessary to carry out group not yet included among the specia·l cases" and 29 were interrogation for hours at a time until confessions are classified as "having made mistakes or needing to be sub­ obtained." In order to frame Wang Guangmei as an jected to· investigation for their historical records." Later, "enemy agent," Jiang Qing and Xie Fuzhi ordered the the great majority of them were also framed and !'lersecut­ interrogation and torture of Zhang Zhongyi, a professor at <.:dby Kang Sheng and others. 153 154 Among the Party and state leaders and the first secre­ Tong, , , Huang Huoqing, Chen Man­ taries of the regional bureau: c! ~heCent.-al Cu;~-..-nitteec: yuan, Zhenhua, Feng Baiju, Fan Wenlan, Li Jianzhen, the Communist Party who were thus framed were: , Zhong Qiguang, Jiang Hua, , Yang Members and Alternate Members of the Political Chengwu, Zhang , Shuai Mengqi, Liu Ren, Wan Yi, Bureau of the Central Committee of the C.P.C.: Liu Shao­ Zhou Yang, Xu Zirong, Liu Lanbo, Kui Bi, Ou Mengjue, qi, , Chen Yun, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Zhen, Dehai, Zhang Qilong, Ma Wenrui, Wang Shitai, Liao Yi, Peng Dehuai, , Li Xiannian, , Li Hansheng, , , , Liao Lu­ Jingquan, , , Rongzhen, Ye , Shilun, Zhou Huan, , Zhao Jian­ Jianying, , , , min, Qian Junrui, Jiang Nanxiang, Han Guang, Li Chang, and . Wang Heshou, Chen Zhengren, Zhao Yimin, Kong Yuan, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Zhang Su, Yang Yichen, Zhao Boping, , Yao >--3 C.P.C. Deng Xiaoping; Members and Alternate Members Yilin, , , Wang Shangrong, Liu Zhen, ::r: of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the C.P.C.: Zhang Jingfu, Li Jiebo, Liao Zhigao, Jiang Weiqing, Tan t"l Peng Zhen, , Tan Zhenlin, Li Xiannian, Lu Qilong, Zhang Zhongliang and . >--3 Dingyi, Luo Ruiqing, Tao Zhu, Ye Jiallying, , (4) Chen Boda, Xie Fuzhi and Wu Faxian made use of >~ , Yang Shangkun and . the case of the so-called "Extraordinary Central Com­ t" 0 Vice-Premiers of the State Counc1!: Chen Yun, Deng mittee of the Communist Party of China" leaflet, which "'l Xiaoping, He Long, , Ulanhu, Li Xiannian, Tan had been uncovered in Tianjin in , to ":l ::r: Zhenlin, , Bo Yibo, Lu Dingyi, Luo Ruiqing frame and persecute Party and state leaders under the t"l and Tao Zhu. pretext of tracking down the "behind-the-scenes bosses." Vice-Chairmen of the Military Commission of the Cen­ On April 28 and August 19, 1968, when they received z~ tral Committee of the C.P.C.: He Long, Nie Rongzhen, Zhao Dengchen~,then a member of the leading group at p Chen Yi, Xu Xiangqian and Ye Jianying. the Ministry of Public Security, and others, Chen Boda 0 "'l First secretaries of the regional cun~aus;;f the Central said that the uncovering of the case was merely "the be­ Committee of the C.P.C.: Song Renqiong, Liu Lantao, Li ginning." He added, "It is not the end. The bosses are ~ Jingquan and . hidden behind the scenes, and they are no ordinary per­ c: Other Members and Alternate Members of the Central sons, for ordinary people aren't capable of doing such a :>:l Committee of the C.P.C.: Xiao Jingguang, , Xiao thing. It isn't the act of one individual. Very likely, Ke, Chen Shaomin, , Zeng Shan, , there's an organization behind all this." Xie Fuzhi cut in Wang Shusheng, , , , saying, "Yes, it's merely the beginning, not the end." , Liu Xiao. , , added, "Somebody from the notorious Liu-Deng head­ Jichun, , , Qian Ying, Wang quarters is at the root of it all." Wu Faxian said, "Who Congwu, Ma Mingfang, , , , else can it be but No. 2?" In December Zheng Weisan, Xu Haidong, , Hu Yaobang, Xi 1968, while tracking down the "behind-the-scenes bosses," O'l Zhongxun, An Ziwen, Lu Zhengcao, , Li::o Xie Fuzhi, Zhao Dengcheng and others cooked up the 1-' Chengzhi, , Yang Xianzhen, Zhang Dingcheng, Shu false case of a "Chinese Communist Party (M-L)," with

155 156 Zhu De as the alleged "secretary., of its central commi~tee, the Third National People's Congress," which was subse­ Chen Yi as "deputy secreta~')IIIld concurrentl:>- minister quently revised and finalized by Kang Sheng himself. In of.defence," and as "premier." Its members the report, 60 of the 115 Members were framed as "rene­ en allegedly included , Ye Jianying, Li Xiannian, gades," "suspected renegades," "enemy agents," "sus­ t..:l He Long, , Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Tan pected enemy agents," "counter-revolutionary revision­ Zhenlln, , Wang Zhen and , who ists, capitalist roaders or anti-Party, anti-socialist and were falsely accused of having "illicit relations with anti-Mao Zedong Thought elements" and "highly dubious foreign countries," "making preparations for an armed characters." They were: Chairman of the Standing Com­ insurrection" and attempting to "stage a coup." Even up mittee Zhu De; Vice-Chairmen Peng Zhen, , to August 21, 1969, Xie Fuzhi told those who were re­ ,·Liu Ningyi and ; and Members sponsible for inquiring into the case, "Be firm and keep (") Chen Shaomin, Yang Zhihua, Shuai Mengqi, Zhao Yimin, 0 up your inquiries, for some evidence is still lacking. The Qian Ying, Liu Yaxiong, , Xu Liqing, Wang Shitai, verbal confessions made by those jailed can be used as Hu Ziang, Liu Lanbo, Xu Bing, Xu Zirong, Zhang Jingwu, ~ evidence, too." Yang Shangkun, Li Yanlu, Han Guang, Mei Gongbin, 3: (5) Kang Sheng and his wife Cao Yiou instr1:1.cted Guo Wang Kunlun, Nan Hanchen, Gong Yinbing, Cao Meng­ ~ Yufeng, who was in charge of the Organization Depart­ jun, , , Kong Yuan, Hu Yaobang, ment of the C.P.C. Central Committee, to provide on Xie Fumin, Luo Qiong, Wu Lengxi, Zhang Su, Wu Xinyu, ~ August 23, 1968 a fabricated "Report on the Political Ma Chungu, Yu Aifeng, Liu Changsheng, Gu Dacun, > Background of Members of the Control Commission of the Zhou Li, , , Hu Qiaomu, Liang Ul Central Committee of the C.P.c.•• In the report, 37 of Sicheng, Tong Dizhou, Ye Zhupei, Chen Qiyou, Wang ­ >z the 60 Members and Alternate Members of the Control zhou, Ye Jianying, Lin Qiangyun, , Yang Yunyu, Commission of the Eighth Central Committee of the C.P.C. ~ , Zhao Zhongyao, Chen Shaoxian, Zhao Jiu­ c: were falsely labelled "renegades," "enemy agents" or zhang, Mao ·Yisheng and . 0 "counter-revolutionary revisionists." They w .. re: Liu ;; (7) Kang Sheng and Cao Yiou instructed Guo Yufeng Ul Lantao, Wang Congwu, Qian Ying, , Shuai Meng­ to fabricate on August 27, 1968 a "Report on the Political r:n qi, Li Yunchang, Wang Weigang, Yang Zhihua, Li Shiying, Background of Members of the Standing Committee of t'l ~ Li Chuli, Ma Mingfang, Gong Zirong, Chen Shaomin, Fang the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's ;; Zhongru, Liu Yaxiong, Zhang Ziyi, Wang Hefeng, Liu Political Consultative Conference," which was subse­ Ul Shenzhi, Li Peizhi, Zhou Zhongying, Chen Peng, Chen quently revised and finalized by Kang Sheng himself. In Zenggu, Zheng Ping, Xue Zizheng, Gao Kelin, Ji Yatai, the report, 74 of the 159 Members were falsely accused .of , Qiu .Tin. Wn Gl\izhi, M" Gllnrui, Zhang being "renegades," "suspected renegades," "enemy Dingcheng, Wu Defeng, Zhang Jiafu, Liao Suhua, Gong agents," "suspected .enemy agents," " agents," Fengchun, Li Jingying and Xiao Hua. "counter-revolutionary revisionists," or "having illicit re­ (6) Kang Sheng and Cao Yiou instructed Guo Yufeng lations with foreign countries." They were: Vice-Chair­ to fabricate on August 27, 1968 a "Report on the Political men Peng Zhen, Liu Lantao, Song Renqiong, Xu Bing Background of Members of the Standing Committee· of and Gao Chongmin; and Members Wang Congwu, 157 ~58 Liu Xiwu, Ping Jiesan, Yang Dongchun, Li Chuli, of engaging in activities to usurp power as Lin Biao had Wang Weigang, Zhang Ziyi, Li Yunchang, Gong Zirong, during the Lushan Meeting in 1970. In 1974, Jiang Qing, Li Chulee, , Liu Qingyang, Kong Xiangzhen, Ma Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan instructed Chi Qun, Huizhi, Zhang Youyu, Zhang Yun, Wang Zhaohua, Zhou then secretary of the C.P.C. Committee of Qinghua Uni­ Yang, Wu Gaizhi, He Changgong, Lin Xiude, Tang Tianji, versity, Xie Jingyi, then secretary of the Beijing Munic­ , Su Ziheng, Gong Tianmin, Zou Dapeng, ipal Committee of the C.P.C., Lu Ying, editor-in-chief of An Ziwen, Tunan, Wang Jinxiang, Li Lisan, Zeng Renmin Ribao (People's Daily), Zhu Yongjia, then head Xianzhi, Sa Kongliao, Zhang Xiuyan, Ji Yatai, , of the Shanghai Writing Group, and others to make use Ha Fenga, Wang Shiying, Liu Xiao, Yan Baoh,.ng, Yang of the media to stir up nationwide criticism of the "big Qiqing, , , Che Xiangchen, Bain­ Confucian of our time," the "chief minister" and the qen Erdini Qoigyi Gyaincain, Wang Jiaxiang, Wu Xiu­ "," thus attacking Zhou Enlai by innuendo. >-3 quan, Zhang Zhizhong, Sun Xiaocun, Shi Liang, Chu (9) The frame-up and persecution of Zhu De, Vice­ :I: t'l Xuefan, , , Cun Shusheng, Yu Da­ Chairman of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. and fu, Zheng Weisan, , Gao Wenhua, Wang Zi­ >-3 Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Peo­ :>:l gang, Zhang Bangying, Hu Keshi, Li Chang, He Cheng, ple's Congress. From to December 1968, :;: 1:"' Zhong Huilan, Wu Hongbin, Fu Lianzhang, Jin Rubai, Lin Biao, Zhang Chunqiao, Wu Faxian, Qiu Huizuo and Chen Qiyou, Xiong Qinglai and. Zhang Jingfu. 0 others slandered Zhu De and falsely accused him of being "'l (8) The frame-up and persecution of Zhou Enlai, Vice­ a "sinister commander," an "old-line opportunist" and a Chairman of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. and i "warlord" and of "harbouring wild ambitions to become t'l Premier of the State Council. In October 1974, Jiang the leader." c;J Qing falsely accused Zhou Enlai and others of conspiracy, > At the end of , at the instigation of Qi z saying, "Those people in the State Council often maintain C) illicit contact with each other on the pretext of discussing Benyu, some people from the China People's University put up large-size slogans in Beijing, which read "Down 0 work. . . . The Premier 1s the boss behinci th~scenes." "'l On October 17, 1974, the gang of four, namely, Jiang Qing, with Zhu De." Presently the "Liaison Centre for Ferret­ "'!!j ing Out Zhu De" was set up and a plot was under way to 0 Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, c:: hatched a plot in Building No. 17 at Diao Yu Tai in Bei­ hold meetings to repudiate him. On March 4, Qi Benyu :>:l jing and the following day sent Wang Hongwen to Chang­ received people from the China People's University and sha to make a false and insinuating report to Chairman incited them to continue with their persecution of Zhu Mao Zedong. He said, "Although the Premier is ill and De. He said, "If you do it yourselves, you will succeed. hospitalized, he is hn~y~~.lmmoning pt:>ople for taJks fnr But if j'OU tell people that I'm behind all this, you won't into the night. Almost every day someone visits him. succeed. You think you're smart. Actually you're a Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian are frequent bunch of fatheads. It's up to you to decide whether you visitors." He added, "The atmosphere in Beijing now is go on or not." en very much like that at the Lushan Meeting." He was (10) The frame-up and persecution of Deng Xiaoping, C.:> falsely accusing Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and others Member of the Standing Committee of the Political

159 160 Bureau of the Central Committee of the C.P.C., General A year ends amidst the crepitation of firecrackers, Secretary of the Central Committee and Vice-Premier of An easterly breeze has warmed the New Year's the State Council. On December 6, 1966, Lin Biao wine. O'l ~ slandered Deng Xiaoping as a "member of a sinister The doors of every household are bathed in the gang" and as an "anti-Party element." And on January sunshine, 29, 1967, Kang Sheng vilified Deng Xiaoping, as a A new peach-wood lintel charm invariably replaces "Khrushchov-type person." the old. On October 4, 1974, Chairman Mao Zedong proposed This again revealed Zhang Chunqiao's counter-revolu­ that Deng Xiaoping be First Vice-Premier of the State tionary ambition to effect a "change of dynasty." On Council. In an attempt to prevent Deng Xiaoping from February 22, Mao Yuanxin said to Ma Tianshui and ·Xu C':l taking office, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wen­ Jingxian, then vice-chairmen of the Shanghai Municipal 0 yuan and Wang Hongwen conspired together on October Revolutionary Committee, and others that Deng Xiao­ ~ trl 17 in Building No. 17 at Diao Yu Tai in Beijing and had ping "worships things foreign and sells out the sov­ ~ '"0 Wang Hongwen go to the following day to re­ ereignty of the country" and that he "represents the 0 port to Chairm;m Mao Zedong with the false charge that interests of the comprador " and was trying ~ Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and otht:.-:; v;tn:! -:ng<>!>.:ciin to bring about an "all-round retrogression" so that "there ::0 activities to seize powet·. would be a change in the nature of the state." On March ><: From February to May 1976, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chun­ 2, at a forum of leading members from a number of Ul> qiao, Yao Wenyuan and Mao Yuanxin, another key provinces and autonomous regions, Jiang Qing maligned > member of the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique, Deng Xiaoping, calling him a "counter-revolutionary z went a step further in their false accusations against double-dealer," the "general manager of a rumour­ rf c:: Deng Xiaoping. Document No. 1 of the Central Com­ mongering company," a "fascist," a "big quisling" and 0 mittee of the C.P.C. of 1975 had carried the ::.p~oint­ a "representative of the comprador bourgeoisie." On Pi Ul ment of Deng Xiaoping as Vice-Chairman of the Military April 26, Jiang Qing falsely charged that Deng Xiaoping, r:n Commission of the C.P.C. Central Committee and con­ like Lin Biao, had "big and small fleets" (gangs formed trl currently Chief of the General Staff of the P.L.A. and ::0 to carry out plots and assassinations - Tr.) and that Pi Document No. 1 of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. "their fleets operated in about the same way in some Ul of 1976 had carried the appointment of Hua Guofeng as cases, and differently in others. Deng's small fleets are, Acting Premier of the State Council. Regarding these however, more active." On April 5, Zhang Chunqiao two documents, Zh11ng Chunqiao wrntf' nn February ~. slande~·:::"Jslyaccused Deng Xiaoping of being a "Nagy." 1976, "Here is yet another Document No. 1. There was On May 16, in an article entitled "There Is Really a a Document No. 1 last year. This is truly a case of in­ Boutgeoisie Within the Party- Analysis of the Counter­ flated arrogance at an upturn in fortune. Moving up so Revolutionary Political Incident at Tian An Men Square," fast and so hurriedly spells a downfall that will be just which Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) sent him for as rapid." and he quoted a classical poem: finalization, Yao Wenyuan added that Deng; Xiaoping

161 162 "is the chief boss behind this counter-revolutionary contained the proposal that "Peng Dehuai be dismissed political incident." from all posts inside and outside the Party, expelled (11) The frame-up and persecution of Chen Yi, from the Party for good, sentenced to life imprisonment Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Commit­ and deprived of civil rights for life." Peng Dehuai died tee of the C.P.C., Vice-Premier of the State Council as a result of persecution. and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission of the (13) The frame-up and persecution of He Long, C.P.C. Central Committee. On August 7, 1967, Wang Member of the Political Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Li, a member of the "Cultural Revolution Group Under Committee, Vice-Premier of the State Council and Vice­ the C.P.C. Central Committee," said, "Picking on Chen Chairman of the Military Commission of the Central Yi is of course correct in orientation." He added, "What's Committee of the C.P.C. In the summer of 1966, at a wrong with the slogan 'Down with Liu (Shaoqi), Deng students' rally at the Beijing Normal University and at t-3 (Xiaoping) and Chen (Yi)?'" He was agitating people meetings of the "Cultural Revolution Group Under the :X: to usurp leadership over foreign affairs. In November C.P.C. Central Committee," Kang Sheng falsely charged ('] He Long and Peng Zhen "secretly deploying troops 1968, upon Zhang Chunqiao's instruction, Wang Hong­ with ~ wen, Xu Jingxian and others compiled a Collection of to stage a February mutiny." In August 1966, Lin Biao :; Chen Yi's Reactionary Views and Utterances while instructed Wu Faxian to fabricate material accusing He t"' 0 nominally preparing documents for the forthcoming Long of plotting to usurp leadership in the Air Force. "'j

C.P.C. Ninth National Congress. This fabricated Collec­ On September 3, Wu Faxian sent Lin Eiao the material ....J :X: tion was distributed in the study class of deputies from he had prepared. Between late August and early Septem­ ('] ber, Ye Qun spoke to Song Zhiguo, then chief of the Shanghai to the Ninth National Party Congress, falsely 0 accusing Chen Yi of "capitulating to , revi­ Guards Division of the General Office of the Military z> sionism and reaction" and "whipping up public opinion Commission of the Central Committee of the C.P.C., in­ C'l for restoring capitalism." At the same time, they collect­ forming him of what she had fabricated in order to frame 0 ed and compiled another 76 copies of material, running He Long. Then she directed him to put the material "'j to a total of 1,163 pages, which carried false charges in writing, saying, "Make it sound as if you yourself "%j 0 against Ye Jianying, Li Xiannian, Chen Yun, Chen Yi, were giving me the information, and not as if I had c:: Nie Rongzhen, Li Fuchun, Tan Zhenlin and others. directed you to do so." From September 7 to 24 Song ~ (12) The frame-up and persecution of Peng Dehuai, Zhiguo sent Lin Biao four collections of material he had Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Commit­ prepared for framing He Long. On May 16, 1968, Kang tee of the C.P.C. In July 1967, when Kang Sheng, went a step further in maligning He Long, saying, Boda and Qi Benyu n~ceivadIlan Aijing and other' "Judging He Long's present behaviour in the light of his students of the Beijing Aeronautical Engineering In­ betrayal of the revolution and surrender to the enemy stitute, Qi Benyu made arrangements with them for• the in the past, it is inconceivable that he is not now engag­ repudiation and persecution of Peng Dehuai. On Novem­ ed in active counter-revolutionary activities. The past 0') ber 3, 1970, Huang Yongsheng examined and approv­ provides the clue to the present." He Long died as a Cl1 ed a report prepared by the special case group, which result of persecution.

163 164 (14) The frame-up and persecution of Xu Xiangqian, that they had been "bad people in the saddle" in north Member of the Political l::surellu of the Central Commit­ China. (16) The frame-up and persecution. of Ye Jianying, tee of the C.P.C. and Vice-Chairman of its Military 0':> Commission. In April 1967, at Ye Qun's instigation Member of the Political Bureau and qf the Secretariat 0':> Kuai Dafu sent people to collect material for framing of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. and Vice­ Xu Xiangqian and Ye Jianying and published a slander­ Chairman of its Military Commission. On June 23, 1967, ous article entitled "Bombard Xu Xiangqian- Down Huang Yongsheng approved the "Plan on Investigation with Xu Xiangqian, the Military Counterpart of Liu for Rounding Up Renegades," submitted by the head of

(Shaoqi) and Deng (Xiaoping)." In June that y~>ar,Qiu the military control commission stationed in the Guang­ Huizuo instructed Wang Xike, then director of the zhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, and its appendix, "cultural revolution office" of the P.L.A. General "Plan for Investigation, No. 1," which was directed (J Logistics Department, and others to concoct material against Ye Jianying, whom they were plotting to per­ 0 secute. 1968, making use of the false charges ~ vilifying Xu Xiangqian and to edit and print leaflets In June 1:':1 slandering him as a "big time-bomb" planted in the he concocted in against Deputy Commander 3:: 'tl Party and army and a "typical careerist and conspirator" Wen Niansheng and others in the Guangzhou Units of 0 ~ and putting forward the slogan "Down with Xu Xiang­ the P.L.A., Huang Yongsheng launched an investigation ;!> qian." concerning the so-called "sinister line." He later sub­ ~ -< (15) The frame-up and persecution of Nie Rongzhen, mitted to Ye Qun confessions which had been extorted, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Commit­ charging Ye Jianying and others with having called r:n> ;; tee of the C.P.C., Vice-Premier of the State Council, "secret meetings" and with "trying to usurp Party and z and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission of the state leadership by plotting a counter-revolutionary Central Committee of the C.P.C. In April 1968, Lin Biao coup." ~ c ordered the Beijing Units of the P.L.A. to convene an On· April 3, 1968, Li Zuopeng, together with Wang tl enlarged Party committee meeting so as to .,,lgiru::er the Hongkun, then second political commissar of the Navy, tri r:n repudiation of what they called the ~·mountain-stronghold and Zhang Xiuchuan, then director of the Navy's Polit­ r:n mentality of ." He then sent Huang Yong­ ical Department, wrote material in which they trump­ 1:':1 sheng, Wu Faxian and Xie Fuzhi to the meeting. Jiang ed up charges alleging that "He (Long) and Ye (Jian­ ~ tri Qing and Chen Boda falsely charged Nie Rongzhen ying) attempted to seiz.e command of the armed forces r:n with being the boss behind those with the "mountain­ to oppose the Party" in co-ordination with Liu (Shaoqi), stronghold mentality of north China" and plotted to Deng (Xiaoping) and Tao (Zhu). overthrow him. In Novt>mh<>rof thE.' llliTT'P. year, Huang (1'{} The frame-up and persecution of Lu Dingyi, Yongsheng slandered Nie Rongzhen, saying that "he has Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the Central never done anything good all his life" and that "these Committee of the C.P.C. and Member of its Secretariat, people will never give up. Whenever the climate is Vice-Premier of the State Council and Director of the right, they're up to something." On ·January 5, 1971, Propaganda Department of the C.P.C. Central Commit­ Jiang Qing slandered Nie Rongzhen and others, saying tee. In , Lin Biao trumped up charges against

165 166 Lu Dingyi, labelling him a "counter-revolutionary." Wangdong, Wan Xiaotang, Zhang Huaisan, , Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng, Chen Bocia, Xie Fu:.!hi, Vv"u Zhao Ziyang, Wu Zhipu, , Wei Wenbo, Faxian and others slandered him as a "renegade," "hid­ , Hui Yuyu, Wang Yanchun, Fang Zhi­ den traitor'! and "special agent of the Bureau of In­ chun, Wen Minsheng, , , Yang vestigation and Statistics of the Kuomintang Govern­ Zhilin, Wang Zhao, , Fu Qiutao, Liu Shao­ ment's Military Council." Chen Boda said that Lu Ding­ wen, Liang Biye, , Li Jukui, Rao Zhengxi, yi should be "handed over to the for trial." Li Yao, Peng Jiaqing, Tang Ping, Zhao Erlu, Xiao Xiang­ At the instigation and under the direction of the Lin rong, Wang Ping, Cai Shunli, Liu Daosheng, Du Yide, Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques, nine , Fang Zhengping, Cheng Jun, Xu Shenji, Zhang deputy directors of the Propaganda Department of the Tingfa, Nie Fengzhi, Wu Fushan, Wu Kehua, Ouyang C.P.C. Central Committee were slandered as "renegades," Yi, , He Jinnian, , Dun Xingyun, "enemy agents" or "Kuomintang elements." Tan Youlin, Cui Tianmin, Fu Chongbi, Zhuang Tian, o-3 ::t: (18) The frame-up and persecution of Luo Ruiqing, Yan Fusheng, Chen Zaidao, Zhong Hanhua, Yang Xiu­ trl Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of shan, Tang Jinlong, Liu Peishan, Liu Zhuanlian, Zhang o-3 Zhonghan, Huang Xinting, Guo Linxiang, Gan Weihan, ::tl the C.P.C., Vice-Premier of the State Council and Chief ;;;: of the General Staff of the P.L.A. Lin Biao, Ye Qun, Yuan Shengping, Yang Jiarui, , Hu Ronggui, t" Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, , Ting Mao and Wang Qimei. 0 'Tl Li Zuopeng and others trumped up charges against him, (20) The frame-up and persecution of leading cadres ..., alleging that he had "illicit relations with foreign coun­ of the Organization Department of the Central Commit­ ::t: tries," was a "hidden traitor" and a "counter-revolu­ tee of the C.P.C. and the usurpation and control of the trl 0 tionary who has committed heinous crimes" and "hatch­ vital organizational power of the Central Committee of ;=.. ed a major plot" against the Navy. the Party. In January 1968, Kang Sheng ordered Guo z (19) Besides those people mentioned in Items (3), Yufeng to produce charts and reports to frame up Cl 0 (4), (5), (6) and (7), others who were fra..r.i!d. al1u per­ charges against Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Peng Zhen, 'Tl secuted by the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolu­ Deng Xiaoping and An Ziwen, who had successively "':: tionary cliques and the principal members of their fac­ served as director of the Organization Department of the 0 c:: tional setups include the following leading members of Central Committee of the C.P.C. since 1937. They were ::tl departments under the Central Committee of the C.P.C., falsely accused of being "renegades," "enemy agents," ministries and commissions under the State Council, and "elements who oppose the Party, socialism a'ld Mao C.P.C. committees and people's governments in prov­ Zedong Thought," or "any combination of these." inces, autonomou~rt>gion!' and municip::tlities directly Twenty-two people, who had at one time or another under the Central Government, and high-ranking P.L A. served as deputy directors of the Organization Depart­ cadres: , Jia Tuofu, , Gu ment, were falsely charged with being "renegades," Mu. Lu Dong, Gao Yang, Duan Junyi, Liu Jie, Sun Zhi­ "enemy agents," "elements maintaining illicit relations yuan, Wang Zhcng, Zhang Linzhi, Liu Yumin, Sun O'l with foreign countries," or "elements who oppose the -J Daguang, Yuan Baohua, , , Xiao Party, socialism and Mao Zedong Thought." It was also

167 168 alleged that a "counter-revolutionary clique" had handful of capitalist roaders in power in the People's entrenched itself in the Orgbl>ization Department, which Liberation Army." They plotted to plunge the armed had become "a sinister den'' and had "established a na­ forces into chaos. (j) tionwide network of counter-revolution which recruited In order to control the armed forces, Lin Biao fabricat­ CXl renegades to form a clique to pursue its own selfish in­ ed charges against large numbers of cadres and masses terests." And it was proposed that the Organization in the Headquarters of the P.L.A. General Staff and Department "be disbanded and abolished." framed and persecuted them. In April 1968, Huang (21) The frame-up and persecution of leading cadres Yongsheng said at the Headquar-ters of the General of the public security organs, the procuratorial organs Staff, "Quite a few bad people have surfaced here, peo­ and the courts at ·various levels, and the usurpation and ple such as , Luo Ruiqing, Zhang Aiping C':l control of the instruments of the dictatorship of the pro­ and Wang Shangrong," and "the verdicts against them 0 letariat. At the instigation and under the direction of can never be reversed; they must never be allowed to ...,z the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary stage a comeback." t'l E:: cliques, the nation's public security, procuratorial and On July 25, 1967, Lin Biao called for the "thorough 25 judicial organs were completely destroyed. Xie Fuzhi smashing of that Palace of Hell- the General Political incited people to. "smash the public security, procuratorial ~ Depat·tment of the People's Liberation Army." On :;l:l and judicial organs" all over the coumry. Zhcmg uing­ many occasions Lin Biao and Ye Qun slandered Luo -< cheng, Chief Procurator of the Supreme People's Proc­ Ronghuan and Tan Zheng, former directors of the r:Jl> uratorate, Yang Xiufeng, President of the Supreme Peo­ General Political Department. They trumped up charges, > ple's Court, and large numbers of cadres and policemen alleging that there was a "Luo (Ruiqing) -Liang (Biye) z working in the public security organs, the procuratorial anti-Party clique." Huang Yongsheng vilified the organs and the courts at various levels were framed and ~ General Political Department, saying that it "has been c: persecuted. .Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi and others concoct­ 0 recruiting renegades under a succession of several direc­ ;;:; ed false charges against the Ministiy of Pt;blic Scc~rity, tors." Qiu Huizuo also slandered it, saying that it r:Jl alleging that there was a so-called "underground sinister en was "not very different from the Kuomintang secret t'l ministry of public security headed by Luo Ruiqing." :;l:l With the exception of Xie Fuzhi himself and one vice­ service." He took an active part in conspiratorial activi­ ;;:; minister who held other posts concurrently, all the vice­ ties to "thoroughly smash the General Political Depart­ r:Jl ministers of the then Ministry of Public Security were ment." Large numbers of cadres and masses in the de­ arrested and imprisoned. Vice-Minister Xu Zirong died partment were framed and persecuted. Four comrades as a result of- persecution. who had been director or deputy director and another (22) In January 1967, Lin Biao personally attached 20 who had been section chiefs and deputy chiefs were the comment, "I fully approve," to the slogan put for­ imprisoned and investigated under the false charge of ward by Guan Feng, and other members of attempting to "usurp leadership over the Army and op­ the "Cultural Revolution Group Under the Central Com­ pose the Party" and of being "renegades," "enemy mittee of the C.P.C.," that is, "Thoroughly expose the agents" or "active counter-revolutionaries." Yuan Zi-

169 170 qin, Wang Bing and 15 other persons died as a result of speeches prepared for Ma Tianshui and Xu Jingxian. persecution. In these articles and speeches, they vilified veteran On March 5, 1974, Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao cadres in leading organs of the Party, government and r:eceived Chen Yading, former deputy head of the army at various levels as "bourgeoi:1 democrats," "cap­ cultural section of the P.L.A. General Political Depart­ italist roaders" or "long-time capitalist roaders" and in­ ment, and others. Jiang Qing said, "Chen Yading, we cited further persecution of them. have invited you here today in order to straighten things At the ~ndof March 1976, slogans written in bold out in the Army." She added, "It seems that we have characters opposing Zhang Chunqiao appeared in Nan­ to seize power. Chen Yading, why don't you go and do jing. Yao Wenyuan slandered the people who had put it? In my opinion, we might as well let Chen Yading up the slogans, calling them "counter-revolutionaries." take charge of the Army's cultural work." She said to He said to Lu Ying, "It seems there's a command office ~ him and others, "You should kindle a prairie fire," thus :I: stirring up this adverse, counter-revolutionary current." t'l inciting them to grab power in the Army by throwing He added, "The situation in Beijing merits attention." it into disorder. Prompted by Yao Wenyuan, Lu Ying dispatched people ~ (23) Through Chen Boda and Yao Wenyuan, the Lin to Tian An Men Square to collect and compile material >t" Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutinnflry o:-liones -:-~::.­ which was then adulterated by Yao Wenyuan. Thus trolled the mass media and instigated the overthrow of 0 the revolutionary words and deeds of the masses op­ "l the political power of the dictatorship of the proletariat. ..., posing the gang of four, commemorating Zhou Enlai and :I: In June 1966, Chen Boda organized people to write, and t'l cleared such editorials as "Sweep Away All the Monsters supporting Deng Xiaoping were made out to be "counter­ C':l and Demons," thus trying to shape counter-revolutionary revolutionary speeches and slogans" and a "manifestation > public opinion so that the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing of last-ditch struggle and frenzied counterattack by the z declining, moribund forces." The masses themselves C'l counter-revolutionary cliques might usurp power after 0 throwing the whole country into chaos. From 1974 to were vilified as "a handful of bad elements" and "coun­ "l ter-revolutionaries." Yao Wenyuan even called for the 1976, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan ~ instructed the "Liang Xiao" writing group of Qinghua "execution of a bunch of them." c: and Beijing Universities, the "Luo Siding" writing group From January to September 1976, at the instigation :>;l in Shanghai, the "Chi Heng" writing group of the of Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, Lu Ying dispatched magazine Hongqi (), and the "Tang Xiaowen" people to certain departments of the Party and the writing group of the Higher Party School of the Central Gove~r>mentas well as to , , ,

Committee of the C.P.C. to spr~acicounter-revolutionary, , , Yunnan, and other prov­ demagogic propaganda. In the spring of 1976, Yao Wen­ inces. There they collected material which they distort­ yuan personally revised and cleared such articles as ed in order to frame leading cadres in the Party, govern­ "From Bourgeois Democrats to Capitalist Roaders" ment and o.rmy, calling them "unrepentant capitalist O'l published in Hongqi (Red Flag) and Renmin Ribao (Peo­ roadcrs" or "capitalist roadcrs still travelling the capital­ CJ:) ple's Daily). He and Zhang Chunqiao also cleared ist road," and accusing them of "having organized

171 17:! landlords' restitution corps" and "trying to reverse cor­ Jiping and others of "carrying out espionage in collab­ rect verdicts and stage a comeback." oration with U.S. and Chiang Kai-shek spies." Liu Ren, Deng Tuo, and Yue Songsheng died as a -.:) result of persecution. 0 n (25) In January 1968, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan slandered the Shanghai Municipal Committee The Persecution and Suppression of of the C.P.C., saying that it was a "stubborn bourgeois Large Numbers of Cadres and Masses stronghold" and consisted of an "evil bunch." They falsely accused Chen Pixian, its first secretary, of being "an extremely cunning and 'treacherous counter-revolu­ In order to seize Party and state leadership and (') establish their counter-revolutionary rule, the Lin Biao tionary double-dealer" and "the most dangerous enemy 0 of the proletariat," and concocted the charge of "ren­ z and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques incited >-3 beating, smashing and looting, whipped up violence, and egade" against Cao Diqiu, a secretary of the municipal 1:':1 s:: trumped up false charges, thus persecuting and sup­ Party committee and mayor of Shanghai. At the instiga­ '1:l pressing large numbers of cadres and people. tion and under the direction of Zhang Chunqiao and Yao 0 Wenyuan, 17 people, who were secretaries or standing ~ (24) At the instigation and under the directio!". of ::c Lin Biao, Jiang Qing, Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi, seven committee members of the Shanghai municipal commit­ ><: secretaries of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the tee of the Party and mayor or deputy mayors of the > C.P.C., including Liu Ren, , municipality, were falsely charged with being "ren­ IJJ;; and Deng Tuo, and six deputy mayors, including Wu egades," "enemy agents," "capitalist roaders" or z Han and Yue Songsheng, were charged with being "counter-revolutionaries." Cao Diqiu and deputy mayor ~ "enemy agents," "renegades," "counter-revolutionary Jin Zhonghua died as a result of persecution. c: 0 revisionists," "reactionary capitalists" or "reactionary (26) In , Chen Boda said in ;; academic authorities." In January 1968, Kang Sheng that the C.P.C. organization in eastern Hebei Province IJJ falsely charged Liu Ren and deputy mayors Feng Jiping, "was probably a party embodying Kuomintang-Com­ rn 1:':1 Cui Yueli and others with "selling out vital secrets of munist co-operation, and in fact it might be Kuomintang ::c the Party, government and army and betraying the members and renegades who were playing a dominant ;; IJJ Par~yand the nation." And he gave instructions to the role here." A case was trumped up at his instigation, effect that "the ordinary methods of dealing with and more than 84,000 Party cadres and masses in eastern criminals cannot be used in their case," and that "we Hebei Province were framed and persecuted. Zhang should put them in !::.::.nd;:;;.ff~an:i .:;att.)i uut sudden, Wenhao and 2,955 others died as a result of persecution. gruelling interrogations." In May of the same year, (27) On January 21, 1968, at the in Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi concocted the case of a Beijing, Kang Sheng slandered , secretary "counter-revolutionary clique within the former Beijing of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the C.P.C., saying Municipal Public Security Bureau, headed by Feng to hi:; face, "You are a renegade ... I can tell. Forty Jiping and Xing ," falsely accusing Feng yeai's' experience in revolutionary work gives me this

~73 174 kind of intuition ..• you have a deep-seated class hatred." jiang warlord, were falsely accused of having "sur­ He falsely accused Zhao Jianmin of carrying out the plans rendered to the enemy, betrayed the revolution" and of a group of Kuomintang agents in Yunnan and of "concealed themselves inside our Party" and of forming "trying to take advantage of the Great Cultural Revolu­ a "renegade clique." Ninety-two cadres, including Ma tion to create chaos in the border areas." Kang Sheng Mingfang, Zhang Ziyi, Yang Zhihua and Fang Zhichun, and Xie Fuzhi forbade Zhao Jianmin to argue, and Xie were persecuted, and Ma Mingfang and 25 others died announced there and then Zhao's arrest. Thus at the as a result of persecution. instigation of Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi, the "case of (30) In February 1946, in accordance with a decision enemy agent Zhao Jianmin" was fabricated, lc~dingto of the Northeast Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Committee the frame-up and persecution of large numbers of cadres which had been approved by the Central Committee in and masses in Yunnan, over 14,000 of whom died as a 1945, Lu Zhengcao, Wan Yi, Zhang Xuesi, Jia Tao, Liu result. Lanbo, Li Youwen, Yu Yifu and 35 others jointly sent a :? t"l (28) Under the pretext of digging out the so-called telegr~phto Chiang Kai-shek through the Xinhua News "Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party," Kang Agency in Yanan, demanding the release of Zhang ~ Sheng framed and persecuted large numbers of cadres Xueliang. From 1967 to 1969, the Lin Biao and Jiang > and masses in Inner and sabotaged the unity Qing counter-revolutionary cliques and their key mem­ t" 0 between the various nationalities. On February 4, 1968, bers distorted the facts about this incident, accused them "i he said, "The Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary of engaging in a "major, long premeditated, counter­ --3 :z:: Party is still active underground. When we begin to fer­ revolutionary scheme to betray the Party and capitulate t"l ret out its members, we may overdo it a little, but we to the enemy" and fabricated the case of a "counter­ needn't be worried about that." Again, on February 4, revolutionary 'northeast gang' that betrayed the Party z~ 1969, he said, "There are members of the Inner Mongo­ and capitulated to the enemy," framing and persecuting 0 lian People's Revolutionary Party inside the army too. 90 persons. Zhang Xuesi, Jia Tao, Che Xiangchen and 0 This is a very serious matter." Xie I<'uzhi sa1ei, "Tne In­ Chen Xianzhou died as a result of persecution. "i ner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is disguised (31) The counter-revolutionary cliques of Lin Biao "%j 0 as a Communist Party but actually it is not. We must and Jiang Qing falsely accused the underground organiza­ c:: wipe it out." At the instigation of Kang Sheng and Xie tions of the C.P.C. in Beiping, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guang­ :ll Fuzhi, more than 346,000 cadres and other people in the dong, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places of having Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region were framed and "recruited renegades" during the War of Resistance persecuted in the case of the "Inner Mongolian People's Againc;t Japan and the Liberation War and of being a

Revolutionary Party" o>.!ldo~hf'!" false c~se~,:md 16,222 "Kuomintang," a "renegade party" and a "U.S.-Chiang persons died as a result of persecution. special detachment." The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing (29) In 1967, Kang Sheng and others trumped up the counter-revolutionary cliques decided to "make the case of a " renegade clique." One hundred and underground Party organizations the first target of at­ -.l thirty-one Party cadres, who had been arrested and im­ tack." Consequently, large numbers of leaders and ...... prisoned in September 1942 by Sheng Shicai, the Xin- members of these 1,mderground Party organizations and

m 176 many ordinary people who had fought heroically against underground activities" in an attempt to ''seize power" the enemy were charged with being "renegades," "hidden and "stage a coup." Wu Faxian directly framed and traitors," "Japanese agents," "Kuomintang agents," "U.S. persecuted 174 persons, among whom Gu Qian and Liu -..J agents," "spies" or "counter-revolutionaries." Shanben died as a result of persecution. t-.:1 In October 1967, Huang Yongsheng, in collusion with Li Zuopeng, in collusion with Wang Hongkun and Liu Xingyuan, then political commissar of the Guangzhou Zhang Xiuchuan, framed and persecuted a large number Units of the P.L.A., and others, decided to investigate the of cadres and rank and file in the Navy. In January 1968, history of the underground Party organization in Guang­ Li Zuopeng said that working on special cases was dong and set up a special group for this purpose. They equivalent to "the Communist Party dealing blows at the slandered the underground Party organization as having Kuomintang." In October of the same year he again said "recruited renegades," and alleged that a number of that there should be "fierce attacks, vigorous charges and (J 0 "renegades," "enemy agents" and "spies" had sneaked hot pursuit." Li Zuopeng directly framed and persecuted ~ in. This was the false case of "the under­ 120 persons, among whom Lei Yongtong and two others tTl ground Party organization," wilich led to the framing died as a result of persecution. a: and persecution of more than 7,100 people. Lin Qiang­ Qiu Huizuo, in league with Chen Pang, then deputy ~ yun and 84 others died as a result o! pPr:>Pcution. director of the General Logistics Department of the ~ P.L.A., set up a kangaroo court in the department to ex­ ~ (32) The Lin Biao counter-revolutionary clique >< trumped up false charges against large numbers of peo­ tort confessions through torture. Qiu Huizuo said that ple in the P.L.A. Over 80,000 people were framed and there should be "ruthless struggle," "ruthless interroga­ rn> persecuted, of whom 1,169 died. tion" and "ruthless dictatorship." Many of the cadres :;;:z From May 1967 to November 1970, Huang Yongsheng, and of the rank and file were framed and persecuted. in collusion with Liu Xingyuan, concocted the case of a Qiu Huizuo directly framed and persecuted 462 people. ~ c: "counter-revolutionary clique" in the Guangzhou Units of Eight people, including Shen Maoxing and Wang t:.l the P.L.A., falsely accusing Deputy Commander Wen Shuchen, died as a result of persecution. t:;J rn Niansheng and others of attempting to "usurp power by (33) In order to suppress the "Workers' Red Detach­ r:n staging a coup." More than 700 cadres were implicated. ment," a mass organization in Shanghai, and seize Party tTl and government leadership there, Zhang Chunqiao made Cl Wen Niansheng and some others died as a -result of per­ tTl secution. a phone call from Beijing to his wife, Li Wenjing, in rn "!Wu Faxian, in collusion with Wang Fei, then deputy Shanghai on December 28, 1966. He said, "The fruits of chief of staff of the Air Force Command, and Liang Pu, victc::y mustn't be snatched by the Red Detachment. Tell its chief of staff, framed and persecuted iarge· numbers the revolutionary rebels that they mustn't just stand idly of cadres and of the rank and file in the Air Force. Wu by." Li Wenjing informed Xu Jingxian, who then passed Faxian said, "If you don't strike them down, they will on the message. At the instigation of Zhang Chunqiao turn around and pounce on us and have us beheaded." and others, Wang Hongwen worked in collusion with He laid false charges against a number of leading cadres Geng Jinzhang, a criminal guilty of beating, smashing in the Air Force, alleging that they were "conducting and looting, and organized and directed a number of pea-

177 178 ple who were ignorant of the real situation to at­ than 40 people. They disguised themselves as Red tack the "Workers' Red Det;:.ch.-nent." Tl,is a•·med da!;il, Guards and, in the small hours of October 9, searched known as the Kangping Road Incident, resulted in 91 the homes of , , Tong Zhiling, Chen being injured or maimed. Liting and Gu Eryi. Jiang Tengjiao sent wnat they had On August 4, 1967, Wang Hongwen engineered and seized in two batches to Ye Qun's residence in Beijing. directed an armed attack on the mass organization known In January 1967, under Jiang Qing's personal supervi­ as the "Rebel Headquarters of the Revolutionary Al­ sion, Xie Fuzhi and Ye Qun burnt all the letters, photos liance of the Shanghai Diesel Engine Plant." Six hundred and other material relating to Jiang Qing, which had and fifty people were imprisoned or injured. Afterwards, been obtained in the search. Zhang Chunqiao acclaimed Wang Hongwen as "our com­ (36) While in Shanghai in 1967, Zhang Chunqino ordered a counter-revolutionary secret service organiza­ manding officer" and "leader of the working class in >-3 Shanghai." tion- the "You Xuetao Group" (code named "244")­ :z: (34) In May 1967, while in , Zhang Chunqiao to undertake the special tasks of fascist espionage such trl and Yao Wenyuan supported the suppression of the local as tailing, shadowing, kidnapping, ransacking people's >-3 c: masses by , then chairman of the homes, taking people into custody, secretly interrogating > Provincial Revolutionary Committee. Zhang told him, and torturing them, and gathering intelligence. From t"' 0 "You'll have my support if you're st1·ong." Thereupon, November 1967 to March 1968, this organization collected "l on May 7, Wang Xiaoyu engineered a violent incident in or fabricated for Zhang Chunqiao's use slanderous in­ >-:3 :z: the compound of the provincial revolutionary committee, formation on 97 leading cadres of the Bureau trl resulting in the arrest and imprisonment of 388 persons. of the Central Committee of the C.P.C. It drew up a Later, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan again ex­ "Diagram Showing the Relationships Between Persons ~z pressed their support for Wang Xiaoyu and congratulated Working for the Sinister Line in the East China Bureau" 0 him on his "victory in battle." and compiled 300 issues of the publications Minesweeping 0 "l (35) In October 1966, Jiang Qing collab(lrated wHh Ye Bulletin and Trends. All told, it provided over one mil­ lion words in intelligence material, trumping up cases to "rj Qun in ordering Jiang Tengjiao to search and ransack 0 the homes of a number of writers and artists in Shanghai. persecute 183 cadres and other people. In the winter of c:: :;>j Ye Qun asked Wu Faxian to summon Jiang Tengjiao to 1967 and the spring of 1968, this organization sent people Beijing, where she said to him, "One of Comrade Jiang to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places to carry out Qing's letters has fallen into the hands of Zheng Junli, espionage. It falsely charged the leading Party, govern­ Gu Eryi and company. It's not clear who has the letter ment and army cadres in eastern China with "organizing now, but you can or~;tanizesome people to search the an underground armed detachment south of the Chang­ homes of five persons including Zheng Junli, Gu Eryi, jiang River" and "plotting a mutiny." On October 26, Zhao Dan and Tong Zhiling. Bring me all the letters, 19~7,Wang Shaoyong, then vice-chairman of the Shang­ hai Municipal Revolutionary Committee, relayed Zhang diaries, notebooks and such like you can lay your hands ....;J on." And she added, "Keep this absolutely secret." After Chunqiao's words to You Xuetao, "Be careful. You can c.:l returning to Shanghai, Jiang Tengjiao got together more spy on others, but they can spy on you too." In its "Sum-

179 180 mary of the Year's Work" submitted to Zhang Chunqiao Chongmin and Wu Han, Vice-Chairmen of the Central on November 30, 1968, this organization said that it had Committee of the China Democratic League; Sun Qimeng, been "fighting on a special front" and that "over the past Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the China -:J year our work has been mainly covert struggle against Democratic National Construction Association; Che *"' the enemy.... From the central down to the local levels, Xiangchen, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of we have directly or indirectly kicked the backsides of the China Association for Promoting Democracy; Zhou many bigshots." Zhang Chunqiao expressed his approval Gucheng, member of the Presidium of the Central Com­ by writing "Thanks, Comrades" on the summary. mittee of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic (37) From 1974 to 1976, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao Party; and Pan Shu, Vice-Chairman of the Central Com­ and Yao Wenyuan instructed Chi Qun and Xie Jingyi to mittee of the Jiu San (September the Third) Society. 0 use their base of activity at Qinghua University t~make Large numbers of standing committee members and 0 secret contacts and exchange information with key members and alternate members of the central commit­ ~ members of the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique tees of the democratic parties as well as of the All-China t:rJ s: in certain departments of the Central Committee of the Federation of Industry and Commerce were falsely '1:l C.P.C. and the State Council and in Shanghai and Liao­ charged and persecuted, among whom Huang Shaohong, 0 ning. They collected records of speeches made by leading Mei Gongbin, Chu Xichun, Gao Chongmin, Liu Qingyang, ~ :;l:l cadres of provincial Party committees and documents of , Liu-Wang Liming, Liu Nianyi, Wang -< these committees and wrote up such material as The Xingyao, Tang Xunze, Xu , Li Pingxin, Chen > Capitalist Roaders Are Still Travelling the Capitalist Linrui, Zheng Tianbao, Wang Jiaji, Liu Xiying, Zhang Xi, ;;rJJ Road and Information for Reference to frame leading Wang Tianqiang and others died in consequence. z Party, government and army cadres. In the literary and art circles, more than 2,600 people r.n (38) As a result of instigation and instructions from were falsely charged and persecuted in the Ministry of o-3 c:: the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques and units directly under it alone. Noted writers 0 and their backbone elements, frame-ups were ubiquitous and well-known art workers including , Zhao [ii rJJ in the country. Numerous cadres and other people in Shuli, , Gai Jiaotian, Pan Tianshou, Ying r.n the democratic parties, in people's organizations such as Yunwei, Zheng Junli and Sun Weishi died in con­ t:rJ :;l:l trade unions, the Communist Youth League and women's sequence. [ii federations, and in cultural, educational, scientific, In the educational circles, more than 142,000 cadres rJJ technological, journalistic, publishing, public health and and teachers in units under the Ministry of Education physical culture circles were falsely charged and per­ and i., 17 provinces and municipalities were falsely secuted and disabled c:: ciccl :!S ::. ::c::;.Ut, ::.s did large charged and persecuted. Noted professors including numbers of returned overseas Chinese. Xiong Qinglai, Jian Bazan, He Sijing, Wang Shourong, The following are the leading members of the democrat­ Gu Yuzhen, Li Guangtian, Rao Yutai, Liu Pansui and Ma ic parties who were falsely charged and persecuted: Te died in consequence of such persecution. Deng Baoshan, Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee In scientific and technological circles, more than 53,000 of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang; Gao scientists and technicians in units directly affiliated to

181 182 the Chinese Academy of Sciences, two research institutes communes and production brigades and teams as well as under the Seventh Ministry oi Iviachine-Bu1lding and 17 in urban neighbourhood committees throughout the provinces and municipalities were falsely charged and country. persecuted. Noted scientists such as geophysicist , metallurgist Ye Zhupei, theoretical physicist Zhang Zongsui, entomologist Liu Chongle, taxonomist Chen Huanyong, and metal ceramist died in m consequence of such persecution. In health circles, more than 500 of the 674 professors Plotting to Assassinate Chainnan Mao Zedong and associate professors in the 14 medical colleges and and Engineer an Armed Counter-Revolutionary institutes direcUy led by the Ministry of Public Health Coup d'Etat >-3 were falsely charged and persecuted. Such famous med­ :I: l'l ical scientists as pathologist Hu Zhengxiang, phar­ After the failure of their conspiracy to usurp Party and macologist Zhang Changshao, specialist in thoracic >-3 state leadership through "peaceful transition," the Lin :::! surgery Ji Suhua, specialist in acupuncture Lu Shouyan, Biao counter-revolutionary clique plotted to stage an > and traditional Chinese doctors Ye Xichun and Li t"' armed counter-revolutionary coup d'etat and assassinate 0 Zhongren died as a result of persecution. Chairman Mao Zedong. "l In physical culture circles, large numbers of cadres, .., (39) In October 1~69,Lin Biao instructed Wu Faxian coaches and sportsmen we1·e falsely charged and per­ :I: to make his son Lin Lig-vc deputy director of the General l'l secuted. Outstanding coaches such as Fu Qifang, Rong Office and concurrently deputy chief of the Operations Guotuan and Jiang Yongning were victimized and died. ~ Department of the Air Force Command. On October 18, Also falsely charged and persecuted were large num­ z Wu Faxian called together Lin Liguo, Wang Fei and 0 bers of national celebrated model workers, among whom 0 Zhou Yuchi, another deputy director of the General "l Meng Tai and Shi Chuanxiang diea in consequ~uce. Office of the Air Force Command, and said, "Yo:.~are to "%j In 19 provinces and municipalities, over 13,000 re­ 0 turned overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese family report everything concerning the Air Force to Comrade c: members were falsely charged and persecuted, of whom Liguo. Everything is at his disposal and under his com­ ::0 281 died as a result. Such well-known figures in the field mand." In this way Wu illegally put the Air Force under of overseas Chinese affairs as Fang Fang, Xu Li, Huang Lin Liguo's command. Zhou Yuchi and Wang Fei suc­ Jie, , P.uang Qinshu and Chen Manyun died cessively passed on this message to the standing com­

as a result of their p~r~ccution. mittee of the Air Force Party committee at one of its Also persecuted on the false charges of being "ren­ working sessions and to the offices under the Air Force egades," "enemy agents," "counter-revolutionaries" or Command. Lin Liguo formed an "investigation group" "lackeys of capitalist roaders" were innumerable cadres in collaboration with Zhou Yuchi, Wang Fei and others. -.1 and other people working in Party, government and army On the evening of May 2, 1970, when Lin Biao received Cl1 organs, in enterprises and establishments, rural people's Lin Liguo, Zhou Yuchi, Wang Fei and Liu Peifeng, then

·183 184 a section head under the Air Force Command's General called for "gaining the upper hand by striking first mili­ Office, he asked them who their leader was. On May 3. tarily" and plotted to launch an armed counter-revolu­ Zhou Yuchi, Wang Fei and others held a meeting to tionary coup d'etat to "seize nationwide political power" -.1 pledge allegiance to Lin Biao and made Lin Liguo their or bring about "a situation of rival regimes" by taking 0) "leader." In October 1970, the "investigation group" advantage of "some high-level meeting to catch all in one he:~dedby Lin Liguo was reorganized into a "joint fleet." net" or "using special means such as bombs, the 543 (code Ye Qun gave code names to Zhou Yuchi, Wang Fei and name for a kind of guided missile - Tr.), traffic ac­ others. The "joint fleet" constituted the backbone of Lin cidents, assassination, kidnapping and urban guerrilla Biao's plot to assassinate Chairman Mao Zedong and stage squads." They also plotted to· "seek Soviet help to tie an armed counter-revolutionary coup d'etat. down domestic and foreign forces." ('1 From 1970 to September 13, 1971, under the direction On March 31, 1971, while in Shanghai, Lin Liguo, im­ 0 plementing the plan for establishing a "command team" z of Lin Liguo and Zhou Yuchi, Hu Ping, deputy chief­ >-l of-staff of the Air Force Command, Wang Weiguo, polit­ as described in the Outline of "," summoned trl ical commissar of P.L.A. Unit 7341, Mi Jianong, political Jiang Tengjiao, Wang Weiguo, Chen Liyun, political s:: commissar of the Guangzhou Branch of the Civil Avia­ commissar of the P.L.A. Unit 7350, and Zhou Jianping, ~ ~ tion Administration of China (CAAC), Gu Tongzhou, deputy commander of the Air Force, to a secret ::0 chief-of-staff of the Guangzhou Air Force Headquarters meeting at which Zhou · Jianping was made "head" in -< and others set up secret centres of activity in Beijing, Nanjing, Wang Weiguo "head" in Shanghai and Chen C/l> Shanghai and Guangzhou. These centres were used by Liyun "head" in Hangzhou. Jiang Tengjiao was to be > Lin Liguo and others for liaison purposes and for storing "responsible for liaison between the three places with a z arms and ammunition, wireless sets, bugging devices and view to co-ordination and concerted operation." rf confidential Party and government documents. c:: In March 1971, instructed by Lin Liguo, Mi Jianong t) (40) From September 1970 onwards, Lin Biao stepped organized a "combat detachment" in Guangzhou. He f;i up his preparations for an armed counter-revolutionary made its members take an oath of allegiance to Lin Biao C/l UJ coup d'etat. In February 1971, after plotting with Ye Qun and Lin Liguo, and worked out argots and code words trl and Lin Liguo in , Lin Biao sent Lin Liguo to to be used in communications. ::0 f;i Shanghai, where from March 21 to 24, he called together In April 1971, Lin Liguo directed Wang Weiguo to set C/l such chief members of the "joint fleet" as Zhou Yuchi, up a "training corps" in Shanghai in preparation for the Yu Xinye, a deputy section head under the General Office coup. Trainees were taught special skills in arresting of the Air Force Command, and Li Weixin, then a deputy peop~::.hand-to-hand fighting, the use of various kinds of section head under tne Political Department of P.L.A. light weapons and driving motor vehicles. Unit 7341, and mapped out a plan for an armed counter­ (41) On the evening of September 5, 1971, Zhou Yuchi revolutionary coup- Outline of "Project 571." They and Yu Xinye telephoned Gu Tongzhou to find out what assessed the situation, worked out the outline of imple­ Chairman Mao Zedong had said in Changsha to leading mentation and decided on the slogans and tactics. They personnel. The information thus obtained was secretly

185 186 reported to Lin Liguo and Ye Qun at once, and Gu coup to Liu Peifeng, Jiang Tengjiao, Wang Fei, Li Weixin, Tongzhou sent a written repc:.-: to Yc Qun. On September Lu Min, chief of the Operations Department of the Air 6, Li Zuopeng, then in Wuhan, received a confidential Force Command, Liu Shiying, deputy director of its report from Liu Feng, political commissar of the P.L.A. General Office, Cheng Hongzhen, secretary of the office, Wuhan Units, containing Chairman Mao Zedong's con­ Guan Guanglie, political commissar of the P.L.A. Unit versations with leading personnel assembled in the city. 0190, and others. They worked out the details for assas­ Li Zuopeng returned to Beijing the same day and sinating Chairman Mao Zedong. Jiang Tengjiao was separately tipped off Huang Yongsheng and Qiu Huizuo. appointed frontline commander for action in the Shang­ That very night Huang Yongsheng phoned Ye Qun about hai area. They plotted to attack Chairman Mao Zedong's this, who was then in Beidaihe. After receiving the secret train with flame throwers and 40-mm. bazookas, dyna­ mite the Shuofang Railway Bridge near Suzhou, bomb information from Gu Tongzhou and Hl!lang Yongsheng, t-3 Lin Biao and Ye Qun made up their minds to assassinate the train from the air, or blow up the oil depot in Shang­ Chairman Mao Zedong. On September 7, Lin Liguo issued hai, near which the special train would pull up, and then ~ the order for first-degree combat readiness to the "joint assassinate the Chairman in the ensuing commotion, or let t-3 ~ fleet." On September 8, Lin Biao issued the following Wang Weiguo carry out the murder when he was being handwritten order for the armed coup: "Expect you to received by Chairman Mao Zedong. ~ 0 act according to the order transmitted IJy Comracies Liguo Meanwhile, Lin Biao and Ye Qun were making prepara­ "'l and Yuchi." On the same day, Lin Liguo brought from ..., tions for fleeing south to Guangzhou to set up a separate :I: Ye Qun in Beidaihe a sealed document addressed to Huang Party central committee, and also for defecting to another t'l Yongsheng personally. It was to be delivered by Wang Fei. country. On September 10, they ordered Zhou Yuchi and On the morning of September 10, Wang Fei delivered the others to obtain from the Air Force Command maps z~ sealed dccument to Huang Yongsheng. On the same day showing where radar units were deployed in north, 0 Huang Yongsheng repeatedly contacted Ye Qun, making 0 northeast and , frequency tables of the "'l five phone calls to her. The two longest la:;~::d9C o.r.d 135 radio stations in neighbouring countries which could be minutes respectively. Also on that day, Liu Peifeng "'j used for navigation purposes, maps showing air lines lead­ 0 brought a letter to Huang Yongsheng from Lin Biao in c:: ing from Beijing to Ulan Bator and and the loca­ ::.1 Beidaihe, in which Lin wrote: "Comrade Yongsheng, I tion of their airports and the latter's call signs and radio miss you very much and hope that you will always be frequency tables, as well as information concerning the optimistic at all times. Take care of your health. If you have any problems, consult Comrade Wang Fei directly." airports in the Guangzhou and areas. The letter was given to Wang Fei by Lin Liguo and Zhou (42) Cn the evening of September 11, Wang Weiguo Yuchi, and Wang was instructed to deliver it to Huang secretly telephoned Lin Liguo and Zhou Yuchi, informing Yongsheng when necessary. From September 8 to 11, at them that Chairman Mao Zedong had already left Shang­ hai for Beijing. When Lin Biao and Ye Qun learned that their secret centres at the Air Force Academy and the -:J Xijiao Airport of Beijing, Lin Liguo and Zhou Yuchi sepa­ their plot to murder Chairman Mao Zedong had fallen -:J rately relayed Lin Biao·s handwritten order for an armed through, they planned to flee south to Guangzhou, taking • 187 188 along Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopen.~and Qiu At 03:15 hours on September 13, 1971, Zhou Yuchi, Yu Huizuo, and set up a separate FarLy central committee there Xinye and Li Weixing hijacked helicopter 3685 at the to split the nation. They also planned to "launch a pincer Shahe Airport in Beijing in an attempt to flee the country, -.J attack from north and south in alliance with the Soviet taking with them piles of confidential state documents and 00 Union should fighting be necessary." On September 12, large amounts of U.S. dollars which they had illicitly Lin Liguo and Zhou Yuchi separately told Jiang Tengjiao, obtained. After seeing through their intention, pilot Chen Wang Fei, Yu Xinye, Hu Ping and Wang Yongkui, a Xiuwen took steps to fly the helicopter back to Huairou deputy section chief in the Intelligence Department of County, a suburb of Beijing, but was killed by Zhou the Air Force Command, to make preparatic::.s for the Yuchi when the helicopter landed. flight south. Hu Ping and company had eight planes (43) Before Lin Biao's defection, Premier Zhou Enlai CJ ready to leave for Guangzhou and helped Lin Liguo to had made the decision that special plane 256 "cannot take 0 fly to Shanhaiguan on special plane 256, which was then off without a joint ot·der from four persons," namely, assigned for the use of Lin Biao, Ye Qun and Lin Liguo Zhou Enlai, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian and Li ~ a:: in Beidaihe. Wang Fei, Yu Xinye and He Dequan, chief of Zuopeng. However, Li Zuopeng distorted this directive 'tl the Intelligence Department of the Air Force Command, when relaying it to those in charge of the Navy's 0 Shanhaiguan Airport, saying, "The plane must not be ~ prepared the name list of those whC' were to. flell' •-::-:.~th, assigned duties and made specific plans for action. Around allowed to take of! unless one of the four leading officials ~ 10 gives the order." He added, "If anyone gives you such an o'clock that evening, Premier Zhou Enlai inquired Ul> about the details concerning the flight of special plane 256 order, you must report it to me. You will be held respon­ sible." At 00:20 hours on September 13, when special > to Shanhaiguan and ordered it to return to Beijing at z plane 256 was getting ready to take off but its engines once. Hu Ping lied, saying that the plane was on a train­ were not yet started, the airport leadership phoned Li rf ing flight to Shanhaiguan and had developed engine c::: Zuopeng asking what they should do if the plane were tl trouble. Thus he refused to carry out Premier 7hou's to insist on taking off. Instead of taking any measures to til order. Meanwhile, he telephoned Zhou Yuchi and tipped Ul prevent the plane from taking off, Li Zuopeng said en him off on what had happened. evasively, "You may report directly to the Premier and t'l Late at night on September 12, Lin Biao, Ye Qun and ~ ask for his instructions." He was procrastinating so that t'l Lin Liguo received a secret report that Premier Zhou Lin Biao could have enough time to escape. Afterwards, Ul Enlai had been making inquiries about the special plane. Li Zuopeng tried to cover up his crime by altering the Thereupon, they hurried to the Shanhaiguan Airport with logbook entry of the relevant phone calls. Liu Peifeng and others. scrambled on to the plane and (44) Aiter Lin Biao's defection on September 13, 1971, ordered it to start taxiing without waiting for the co-pilot, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Qiu Huizuo and others navigator and radio operator to board and the lights to separately destroyed incriminating evidence, including be turned on. The aircraft took off at 00:32 hours on their col'respondence with Lin Biao and Yc Qun, note­ September 13 and crashed near Undur Khan in Mongolia, books, photographs. and other material, in an attempt to killing all those aboard. cover up the crimes of the counter-revolutionary clique.

189 190 IV Jingxian and others. In August of the same year, Yao Wenyuan personally revised and approved an article by Plotting Armed Rebellion in Shanghai the Shanghai Writing Group, entitled "Strengthen the Building of the Workers' ," which was later Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, published in Hongqi (Red Flag). To prepare public as well as Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian, Wang Xiuzhen and opinion for violent suppression and armed rebellion, the company, made Shanghai their base, built up their own article called for the struggle of the workers' militia armed force and plotted an armed rebellion in the face of against "the bourgeoisie inside the Party." their impending doom. (47) In August 1976, , head of the Nanjing (45) In July 1967, Zhang Chunqiao wrote in a report Units of the P.L.A., arrived in Shanghai and had a secret he finalized, "We must use the gun to protect revolution talk with Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian and Wang Xiuzhen o-3 made with the pen" and instructed Wang Hongwen and at Yanan Hotel till midnight. Ding Sheng said, "My ::t: others to organize an armed force in Shanghai under their biggest worry is Unit 6453.... I haven't the slightest t'l control. In September 1973, Wang Hongwen said to Wang control over it.... Several of its divisions are deployed Xiuzhen, "A national general headquarters must be set up along the -Suzhou-Shanghai line. This is a big for the people's militia. I will take charge of it myself." headache.... You must be prepared for any eventuality." r 0 In March 1974, Wang again told her, "The army must not Immediately afterwards, Ma Tianshui attended to the "Zj be allowed to lead the militia whose command should be arming of the militia. Altogether, 74,220 rifles, 300 ~ in the hands of the [Shanghai] municipal Party com­ artillery pieces and more than 10 million rounds of am­ t'l mittee." On many occasions in January arid August 1975, munition were handed out in no time, as a concrete Wang Hongwen told Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian and Wang measure in preparation for an armed rebellion. On ~ Xiuzhen in Beijing and Shanghai, "What worries me most September 21 of the same year, Zhang Chunqiao received 0 is that the army is not in our hands." He added, "We must Xu Jingxian alone in Beijing. After hearing about Ding 0 "Zj be on the alert against the danger of the rev.i:~~u.1ist.;taldng Sheng's secret talk with Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian and l'%j power" and "We must be prepared for ." Wang Xiuzhen in Shanghai and about the hurried handout 0 In February 1976, he said, "It's Chunqiao and I who of weapons, Zhang Chunqiao said, "Be careful, keep your c:: organized the People's Militia in Shanghai." And he add­ eyes open for new trends in the class struggle." On ::t! ed, "I'm certainly going to keep firm control over it. You September 23, Wang Hongwen made a telephone call to must run it well for me .... The army isn't so reliable." Wang Xiuzhen, saying, "Be on your guard, for the strug­ (46) On May 7, 1976, when talking in Beijing with Chen gle isn't over yet. The bourgeoisie inside the Party will

Jide, a member of !:!:.-;! Sh'!ngh<>i Wr!.t!n~Group, Yao not b~:reconciled to defeat. Someone or other is sure to Wenyuan said, "The Great Cultural Revolution is an ex­ try to reinstate Deng Xiaoping." ample of violence, so is the Tian An Men Square Incident. (48) On October 6, 1976, the gang of Jiang Qing, Zhang And the outcome of future struggles will have to be decid­ Chunqiao, Yao Wen yuan and Wang Hongwen was smashed. -J ed through violence too." On returning to Shanghai, Chen On October 8, Xu Jingxian and Wang Xiuzhen sent to co .:Side communicated Yao's views to Ma Tianshui, Xu Beijing Miao Wenjin, secretary ol Jin Zumin, who was

191 192 ln charge of the preparatory group for the reorganization the command of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary of the All..China Federation o! T:ace Unicns, to find gu~ Committee and ordered them to muster their forces and what had happened. They adopted a secret code for contact see to it that there were enough motor vehicles and 00 purposes. That evening, Miao Wenjin and Zhu Jiayao, drivers and that their arms and ammunition matched. 0 a member of the leading Party group in the Ministry o! Over 27,000 rifles and artillery pieces and 225 motor Public Security, made a phone call to Kang Ningyi, vehicles were assigned for use. A large quantity political commissar~of the Security Section of the of food and other material was made available. Fifteen Shanghai Municipal Committee of the C.P.C., asking him transmitter-receivers were installed at the command posts to tell Wang Xiuzhen that the worst had befallen Jiang in the Jiangnan Shipyards and the China Textile Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Machinery Plant and at the militia headquarters of the (1 Hongwen, using the formula "My mother has contracted various districts so as to link them up through telecom­ 0 myocardial infarction." Soon afterwards, Zhu Jiayao munications. Zhong Dingdong drew up more specific phoned Kang Ningyi again, asking him to tell Wang operation plans, code named "Han No. 1" and "Fang No. ~ Xiuzhen, "People have been assembled and locked up. 2," for the armed rebellion. They decided to throw up ~ They can no longer move about." So Xu Jingxian and three cordons between the heart of Shanghai and its Wang Xiuzhen immediately called an emergency outskirts in order to bring under control the city's ad­ ~ mobilization meeting. They decided to "fight it out." They ministrative centre, railway stations, wharves, airports, ~ harbours, the Pujiang River Tunnel, bridges and other said, "Send the militia into action. If we cannot keep up ~ the fight for a week, five or three days will suffice to let main transport routes. Pass words and argots were also the whole world know what's happening." There and then, worked out. On October 12, they planned to publish a ~ Xu Jingxian wrote an order to assemble and deploy 33,500 "Message to the People of Shanghai and the Whole ~ militiamen. A command team and two secret command Country" and drafted 21 counter-revolutionary slogans. tlc:: posts were set up for the armed rebellion, and the On the evening of the same day, Wang Shaoyong and Zhu til newspapers and•broadcasting stations in Shanghai were Yongjia, together with Huang Tao and Chen Ada, who Ul en instructed to act in co~ordination.Li Binshan, deputy were leading members of the group in charge of industry t"l political commissar of the Shanghai Garrison, Shi Shang­ and communications under the Shanghai Municipal Rev­ ~ ylng and Zhong Dingdong, who were in charge of the olutionary Committee, and others met to plan production Ul Shanghai militia headquarters, and others drew up an stoppages through strikes, parades and demonstrations, initial plan for the armed rebellion, which was then the acquiring of control over- the press and radio stations approved by Wang Xiuzhen. Xue Ganqing and Xu and t!:ckade of the news released by the central media. Chenghu, deputy secretaries of the Party committee of They planned to cut off the supply of electricity at the the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, worked grid, barricade airport runways with steel ingots and out the bureau's programme for action. On October 9, Shi scuttle ships to block the river mouth at Wusongkou. Shangying called a meeting of the militia leaders of ten They put forward the counter-revolutionary slogans: districts and of the five militia divisions directly under "Return Jiang Qing to us," "Return Chunqiao to us,"

193 1~ "Return Wenyuan to us" :m~"Return Hcng-..v.:::1to us,'' confessions by torture, and the crime of illegally detaining readying themselves for "a life-and-death struggle." people, and that they should be duly prosecuted according The above-mentioned facts establish that the two to their criminai liability. This Procuratorate hereby counter-revolutionary cliques of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing institutes, according to law, a public prosecution against framed and persecuted the Chairman of the People's the following ten principal accused: Republic of China, the Chairman of the Standing Com­ Defendant Jiang Qing, female, 67, of County, mittee of the National People's Congress, the Premier of Shandong Province. Member of the Tenth Central Com­ the State Council, the General Secretary of the Central mittee of the Communist Party of Ckina and its Political Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and other Bureau prior to her arrest. Now.in custody; leaders of the Party and state, persecuted and suppressed Defendant Zhang Chunqiao, male, 63, of Juye County, large numbers of cadres and people, plotted to assassinate Shandong Province. Member of the Tenth Central Com­ Chairman Mao Zedong and planned to engineer an armed mittee of the C.P.C., its Political Bureau and the Bureau's ~ rebellion, and that they are counter-revolutionary cliques Standing Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, whose aim was to overthrow the· political power of the director of the General Political Department of the Chi­ ~ dictatorship of the proletariat. Their felonies have bP"'n nese People's Liberation Army, first secretary of the t"> proved by a mass of conclusive evidence. The people of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the C.P.C., and chair­ 0 all nationalities, and in particular, the large numbers of man of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee "'l cadres and other people who were framed, persecuted or prior to his arrest. Now in custody; implicated, are witnesses to their criminal activities. And Defendant Yao Wenyuan, male, 49, of Zhuji County, ~ so are those who, for a time, were hoodwinked or misled Zhejiang Province. Member of the Tenth Central Com­ by them. mittee of the C.P.C. and its Political Bureau, second z~ In accordance with the provisions of Article 9 of the secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the 0 0 Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China with C.P.C., and vice-chairman of the Shanghai Municipal "'l regard to the standard for the application of law, this Revolutionary Committee prior to his arrest. Now in "%j procuratorate affirms that the following ten principal custody; 0 culprits have violated the Criminal Law of the People's Defendant Wang Hongwen, male, 45, of , ~ Republic of China and have committed the crime of at­ Province. Member of the Tenth Central Committee tempting to overthrow the government and split the state, of the C.P.C., its Political Bureau and the Bureau's Stand­ the crime of attempting to engineer an armed rebellion, ing Committee, vice-chairman of the Central Committee the crime of having people injured or murdered for of the C.P.C., secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Com­ counter-revolutionary ends, the crime of framing and mittee of the C.P.C., and vice-chairman of the Shanghai persecuting people for counter-revolutionary ends, the Municipal Revolutionary Committee prior to his arrest. crime of organizing and leading counter-revolutionary Now in custody; 00 cliques, the crime of conducting demagogical propaganda Defendant Chen Bodn, male, 76, of Huian County, 1-' for counter-revolutionary ends, the crime of extorting Fujian Province. Member of the Ninth Central Com-

195 1ns mittee of the C.P.C., its Political Bureau and the Bureau's and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques. The other Standing Committee prior to his arrest. Now in custody; defendants involved in this will be dealt with separately. Defendant Huang Yongsheng, male, 70, of 00 County, Province. Member of the Ninth Central Huang Huoqing tv Committee of the C.P.C. and its Political Bureau, and Chief Procurator of the Supreme Peo­ chief of the General Staff of the P.L.A. prior to his arrest. ple's Procuratorate of the People's Now in custody; Republic of China and concurrently Defendant Wu Faxian, male, 65, of Yongfeng County, Chief of the Special Procuratorate Jiangxi Province. Member of the Ninth Central Com­ Under the Supreme People's Proc­ mittee of the C.P.C. and its Political Bureau, and deputy uratorate ('") chief of the P.L.A General Staff and concurrently com­ 0 mander of the P.L.A. Air Force prior to his arrest. Now November 2, 1980 in custody; ~

Defendant Li Zuopeng, male, 66, of Jian County, ~

Jiangxi Province. Member of the Ninth Central Com­ ~ mittee of the C.P.C. and its Political Bureau, and deputy :l:l -< chief of the P.L.A. General Staff and concurrently first political commissar of the P.L.A Navy prior to his arrest. [/J>

Now in custody~ ~ Defendant Qiu Huizuo, male, 66, of Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province. Member of the Ninth Central Com­ ~ mittee of the C.P.C. and its Political Bureau, and deputy t:) t;;j chief of the P.L.A. General Staff and concurrently director [/J of the P.L.A General Logistics Department prior to his r.n arrest. Now in custody; and trJ ~ Defendant Jiang Tengjiao, male, 61, of Hongan County, [/J Hubei Province. Air Force political commissar of the P.L.A. Nanjing Units prior to his arrest. Now in custody. In accordance' with Item 5, Article 11, of the Law of Criminal Procedure of the People's Republic of China, no criminal liability shall be pursued against those defendants who are dead. In this case, they are Lin Biao, Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi, Ye Qun, Lin Liguo and Zhou Yuchi, who were also principal culprits of the Lin Biao

197 198 Ninth C.P.C. Central Committee, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Tenth C.P.C. Cen­ tral Committee and chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Now in custody. WRITTENJUDGEMENT The defendant, Yao Wenyuan, male, 49, of Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province. Formerly a member of the OF "cultural revolution group under the C.P.C. Central Com­ mittee," a member of the Political Bureau of the Ninth THESPECIAL COURT UNDER and Tenth C.P.C. Central Committees and vice-chairman THESUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT OF of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Now in custody. 1-:3 THEPEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA The defendant, Wang Hongwen, male, 46, of Changchun ~ Te Fa Zi No.1 city, Jilin Province. Formerly vice-chairman of the Tenth C.P.C. Central Committee and vice-chairman of the ;? Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Now in >t" 0 custody. o 0 The prosecutors: Huang Huoqing. Cl.iei P•·o:::urator of "l The defendant, Chen Boda, male, 76, of Huian County, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and concurrently g ~ Fujian Province. Formerly head of the "cultural revolu- ill :I: Chief of the Special Procuratorate; Yu Ping and Shi Jin­ t:rl tion group under the C.P.C. Central Committee" and a ~ qian, Deputy Chiefs of the Special Procuratorate; and C') Procurators Ma Chunyi, Wang Wenlin, , Wang Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of > the Eighth and Ninth C.P.C. Central Committees. Now :::1 z Zhenzhong, Wang Pusheng, Wang Yaoqing, Feng Chang­ C'l yi, Qu Wenda, Zhu Zongzheng, Jiang Wen, Sun Shufeng, in custody. 0 "l Li Tianxiang, Shen Jialiang, Zhang Zhongru, Zh~.!!gYing­ The defendant, Huang Yongsbeng, male, 70, of Xianning County, Hubei Province. Formerly chief of the General io:rj jie, Zhang Zhaoqi, Meng Qingen, Tu Men, Zhong Shuqin, 0 Yuan Tongjiang and Jing Yusong. Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Now in c:: :e The defendant, Jiang Qing, female, 67, of Zhucheng custody. County, Shandong Province. Formerly deputy head of The defendant, Wu Faxian, male, 65, of Yongfeng the "cultural revolution group under the Central Com­ County, Jiangxi Province. Formerly deputy chief of the mittee" of the Communist Party of China and a member P.L.A. General Staff and concurrently commander of of the Political Bureau of the Ninth ~ndTenth C.P.C. the A;r Force. Now in custody. Central Committees. Now in custody. The dcfendnnt, Li Zuopeng, male, 66, of Ji'an County, The defendant, Zhang Cbunqiao, male, 63, of Juye Jiangxi Province. Formerly deputy chief of the P.L.A. General Staff and concurrently first political commissar County, Shandong Province. Formerly deputy head of 00 the "cultural revolution group under the C.P.C. Central of the Navy. Now in custody. ~ Committee," a member of the Political Bureau of the The defendant, Qiu Huizuo, male, 66, of Xingguo

199 200 County, Jiangxi Province. Formerly deputy chief of the case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary P.L.A. General Staff and concurrently director of the cliques. General Logistics Department. Now in custody. On November 5, 1980, the Special Procuratorate 00 The defendant, Jiang Tengjiao, male, 61, of Hongan brought before this court the case of the Lin Biao and ~ County, Hubei Province. Formerly air force political Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques plotting to over:.. commissar of the P.L.A. Nanjing Units. Now in custody. throw the political power of the dictatorship of the pro­ The advocates: Defence lawyers Han Xuezhang and letariat, and lodged a public prosecution against the de­ Zhang Zhong for the defendant Yao Wenyuan; fendants, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Defence lawyers Gan Yupei and Fu Zhiren for the de­ Wang Hongwen, Chen Boda, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Fa­ fendant Chen Boda; xian, Li Zuopeng, Qiu Huizuo and Jiang Tengjiao. C1 Defence lawyers Ma Kechang and Zhou Hengyuan for Article 9 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic 0 the defendant Wu Faxian; of China states: "If an act performed after the founding ..,z Defence lawyers Zhang Sizhi and Su Huiyu for the of the People's·Republic of China and prior to the enforce­ I:'J s:: defendant Li Zuopeng; ment of the present law was not deemed an offence under ~ Defence lawyers Wang Shunhua and Zhou Kuizheng the laws, decrees and policies then in force, these laws, ~ for the defendant Jiang Tengjiao. decrees and policies shall be the standard. If the act was :::0 The other defendants, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, deemed an offence under the said laws, decrees and -< Wang Hongwen, Huang Yongsheng and Qiu Huizuo, did policies and is also subject to prosecution under Section Ul> not entrust their defence to any lawyers, nor did they 8, Chapter 4, of the general provisions of the present law, request the Special Court to assign advocates for them. the standard of criminal liability shall also be the said ~ laws, decrees and policies. But if the act is not deemed Sf c:: an offence or the penalty for the offence is lighter under 0 Task of the Special Court the present law, the present law shall apply." In line with til the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and Ul r:n The Special Court Under the Supreme People's Court the Law of Criminal Procedure of the People's Republic I:'J of China, this court tried the principal defendants in the ~ of the People's Republic of China was set up in line with I:'J the "decision on the establishment of a Special Procura­ case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary Ul torate Under the Supreme People's Procuratorate and a cliques in Beijing from November 20, 1980, to January 25, Special Court Under the Supreme People's Court to pros­ 1981. This court listened to the speeches of public pros­ ecute and try the pd;-.cipal dd:;:ndancs in •he case of the ecutors in support of the public prosecution, interrogated Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques," the defendants and listened to their depositions, defences which was adopted at the 16th Meeting of th~Standing and final statements, heard the speeches of the advocates, Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress held the testimonies of the witnesses and the accounts of some on September 29, 1980. The task of this court, as defined of the victims, and verified various pieces of evidence by the decision, is trying the principal defendants in the directly relating to the case.

201 202 This court confirms that the counter-revolutionary counter-revolutionary cliques carried out their counter­ clique headed by Lin Biao and the counter-revolutionary revolutionary criminal activities. During the "great cul­ clique headed by Jiang Qing were both counter-revolu­ tural revolution," the political life of the,state became ex­ tionary cliques that carried out conspiratorial activities tremely abnormal, and the socialist legal system was for the purpose of seizing the supreme power of the Party seriously undermined. Taking advantage of their positions and the state. These two counter-revolutionary cliques and power at that time and resorting to every possible had the common criminal motives and purpose of over­ means, overt and covert, by pen and by gun, the Lin Biao throwing the people's democratic dictatorship, namely the and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques framed and persecuted state leaders and leaders of the Chinese Com­ dictatorship of the proletariat (including the s~:lteorgans and military institutions and, in the present case, also munist Party and the democratic parties in a premeditat­ including the Chinese Communist Party, the force that ed way, conspired to overthrow the government and sab­ otage the army, suppressed and persecuted large numbers exercises leadership over the above-mentioned organs and ~ institutions) in China, conspired together in committing of cadres, and ordinary people from various trl social strata, poisoned the minds of large numbers of 1-:3 criminal offences, and thus formed a counter-revolution­ ::0 ary alliance. The principal culprits in the case of the young people, and endangered the life and property and > Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques are right of autonomy of the people of various national mi­ 1:"' norities. The Lin Biao counter-revolutionary clique 0 the defendants, Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wen­ "'l yuan, Wang Hongwen, Chen Boda, Huang Yongshcng, Wu plotted to stage an armed coup d'etat and conspired to .., Faxian, Li Zuopeng, Qiu Huizuo and Jiang Tengjiao, as assassinate Chairman Mao Zedong. The Jiang Qing ::z:: counter-revolutionary clique plotted to stage an armed trl well as the following who are dead: Lin Biao (formerly 0 vice-chairman of the Eighth and Ninth C.P.C. Central rebellion in Shanghai. The criminal activities of the Lin > Committees and minister of national defence), Kang Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques lasted z for a whole decade, bringing calamities to all fields of C'l Sheng (formerly advisor to the "cultural revolution group 0 under the C.P.C. Central Committee" and vice-chairman work and all regions across the country, subjecting the "'l of the Tenth C.P.C. Central Committee), Xie Fuzhi system of the people's democratic dictatorship and so­ "%j cialist public order in our country to extraordinarily grave 0 (formerly a member of the Political Bureau of the Ninth c:: C.P.C. Central Committee and minister of public security), danger, inflicting very great damage upon the national ::0 Ye Qun (formerly a member of the Political Bureau of the economy and all other undertakings, and causing enor­ Ninth C.P.C. Central Committee and the wife of Lin Biao), mous disasters to the people of all nationalities in the Lin Liguo (formerly deputy chief of the Operations De­ country. 1'ne acts of the principal culprits in the case of the Lin partment of the P.L.A Air Force H~et:l-=!tta!'tersa.."l.dthe son of Lin Biao) and Zhou Yuchi (formerly deputy director Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques, which of the General Office of the P.L.A. Air Force Head­ endangered the state and society, constitute criminal of­ quarters). fences both under the laws and decrees then in force and 00 It was in the decade of turmoil known as the "great under the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China 01 cultural revolution" that the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing which came into force on January 1, 1980. The duty of

203 204 this court is to hear the criminal offences committed bv ments o! organization and propaganda under the Central the principal culprits in the case of the Lin Biao and Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques and pursue their departments of culture, education, health, and nationali­ 00 criminal liability, in strict accordance with the Criminal ties affairs under the State Council, seized leadership in C) Law of the People's Republic of China. This court does most of the provinces, autonomous regions and munici­ not handle other problems of the defendants that do not palities directly under the central government, and for fall into the category of criminal offences. a time "smashed" the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and seized part of the leadership in some military institutions. Criminal Offences by the Principal The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary Culprits of the Lin-Jiang Cliques cliques worked hand in glove in scheming to frame and l.l persecute Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic 0 ...,z The offences committed by the principal culprits in of China. In August of 1966, Lin Biao asked Ye Qun to l'l the case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolu­ dictate to Lei Yingfu, deputy director of the Operations .,s:: tionary cliques are as follows: Department of the Headquarters of the P.L.A. General 0

The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing c::untcr-rcvcl.ut~vharyStaff, material containing false charges they had fabricat­ ~ cliques plotted to subvert the government and overthrow ed against Liu Shaoqi, and they instructed Lei Yingfu to ~ the people's democratic dictatorship in China. While put these charges in writing. In December of the same formulating the policy for seizing Party and state leader­ year, Zhang Chunqiao privately summoned Kuai Dafu, Ul> ship, Lin Biao said on January 23, 1967: "All power, be it a student at Qinghua University, and instigated him to > at the top, middle or lower levels, should be seized. In organize a demonstration and agitate first of all in society z some cases, this should be done soon, in others later. . . . at large for "overthrowing Liu Shaoqi." In July of 1967, [f c:: This may be done at the top or lower levels, or done in Jiang Qing, in collusion with Kang Sheng and Chen Boda, t:l co-ordination at both levels." Zhang Chunqiao said on decided to have Liu Shaoqi persecuted physically, depriv­ Fl January 22: "We must seize power everywhere." From ing him of his freedom of action ever since. Beginning Ul (/) 1967 to 1975, Zhang Chunqiao declared on many occasions from May of 1967, Jiang Qing assumed direct control of l'l that "the 'great cultural revolution' " meant "a change of the "group for inquiring into the special case of Liu ::tJ Fl dynasty." Although the above-mentioned counter-revolu­ Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei" and, in collusion with Kang Ul tionary aim of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-rev­ Sheng and Xie Fuzhi; directed the group to extort con­ olutionary cliques could not entirely succeed owing to fessions from people arrested and imprisoned and rig up resistance from the Party, ih~gov~rnment and the people, false evidence vilifying Liu Shaoqi as a "renegade, .. they did succeed over a fairly long period of time in "enemy agent" and "counter-revolutionary." In 1967, in seriously disrupting government institutions and affecting order to fabricate false evidence against Liu Shaoqi, Jiang their work, seriously undermining the people's public Qing made the decision to arrest and imprison Yang Yi­ security organs. the people's procuratorates and the peo­ chen, Deputy Governor of Hebei Province (formerly a ple's courts. They controlled leadership in the depart- worker in the organization department o! the C.P.C. Man-

205 206 churia provincial committee), Yang Chengzuo, a professor wounded with several ribs fractured. On November 3, at the China People's Unive1sity (formerly a p1·ofessor at 1970, Huang Yongsheng agreed to the proposal raised by the Catholic University in Beijing and Wang Guangmei's the group in charge of the special case of Pcng Dehuai, teacher); Wang Guangen, a citizen of Tianjin (formerly that Peng Dehuai be "sentenced to life imprisonment and assistant manager of the Fengtian Cotton Mill); Hao Miao, deprived of civil rights for life," in order to continue per­ Liu Shaoqi's cook, and seven others. When Yang Cheng­ secuting him. Peng Dehuai was later tormented to death zuo was critically ill, Jiang Qing said to members of the because of the framing and persecution by the Lin Biao special case group: "Step up the interrogation to squeeze and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques. In July of .out of him what we need before he dies." AJ; "' result of 1966, Kang Sheng falsely charged He Long, Vice-Premier this decision made by Jiang Qing, Yang Chengzuo was and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission of the hounded to death. The special case group under her C.P.C. Centrhl Committee, with "deploying troops to stage control also persecuted Wang Guangen to death. In collu­ a February mutiny" in Beijing. In August of the same ~ sion with Xie Fuzhi, Jiang Qing ordered people to extort year, Lin Biao instructed Wu Faxian to fabricate charges t>J confessions repeatedly from Zhang Zhongyi, a professor at against He Long. In April of 1968, Li Zuopeng and others >-3 i!l the Hebei Beijing Normal College (formerly a professor falsely charged He Long and others with "usurping army > at the Catholic University in Beijing. and Wang Guang­ .leadership and opposing the Party." Framed by Lin Biao, t"' 0 mei's teacher), who was critically ill, so that he died Kang Sheng and others, He Long was imprisoned and "1 barely two hours after an interrogation to extort con­ tormented to death. On June 23, 1967, Huang Yong­

fessions from him. In order to rig up false evidence and sheng approved the "report for instruction on investiga­ ~ frame Liu Shaoqi as a "renegade," Jiang Qing, along with tion for the purpose of rounding up renegades," which Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi and others, ordered the special was submitted by the head of the military control com­ ~ case group to extort confessions from Ding Juequn, who mission stationed in the Guangzhou Municipal Public 0 worked with Liu Shaoqi in the workers' movement in Wu­ Security Bureau, and its appendix, "plan for investiga­ 0 han in 1927, and Meng Yongqian, who w~ o.rrcsted at tion, No. 1," in a scheme to frame Ye Jianying, Vice­ "1 the same time as Liu Shaoqi in Shenyang in 1929. As a Chairman of the Military Commission of the C.P.C. Central ~ 0 result of the framing by Jiang Qing and others, Liu Shao­ Committee, as a "renegade." In June of 1968, Huang c qi was imprisoned and persecuted to death. Yongsheng turned over to Ye Qun the materials charging ::tl The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary Ye Jianying with "plotting a counter-revolutionary coup." cliques framed and persecuted other Party and state In August of 1968, Huang Yongsheng and Wu Faxian leaders. In July of 1967, Qi Benyu, a member of the fabricated facts and framed Luo Ruiqing, Vice-Premier of

"cultural revolution group under tht> C PC. ~~>ntr11l.Com­ the C~::.teCouncil, as a "counter-revolutionary who has mittee," with the approval of Kang Sheng, instigated Han committed heinous crimes." From late 1966 to 1968, Chen Aijing, a student at the Beijing Aeronautical Engineering Boda on quite a few occasions framed Lu Dingyi, Vice­ Institute, to subject Peng Dehuai, a Member of the Politi­ Premier of the State Council, as an "active counter­ 00 cal But"t>:lUof the C.P.C. Central Committee, to physical revolutionary," "renegade" and "hidden traitor," and -.:J persecution. As a result, Peng Dehuai was severely decided to have his health ruined,

207 208 On July 21, 1968, Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng drew The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary

up a list of names, aimi.'lg 11t frami.I'~Memb"rs of tht.? cliques framed and persecuted large numbers of officers

Eighth C.P.C. Central. Committee. In August of the same of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in an attempt to CXl year, Kang Sheng again drew up lists of names aimed at put it under their complete control. On July 25, 1967, CXl framing Members of the Standing Committee of the Third Lin Biao called for the "thorough smashing of the P.L.A. National People's Congress and Standing Committee General Political Department." Huang Yongsheng, Wu Members of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese Faxian, Li Zuopeng and Qiu Huizuo respectively framed People's Political Consultative Conference. In December and persecuted large numbers of officers in the Head­ of the same year, Xie Fuzhi rigged up the case of a "Chi­ quarters of the General Staff, the General Political De­ nese communist party (Marxist-Leninist)" with still an­ partment, the General Logistics Department, the Air Force and the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. CJ other list of names. On these four lists, 103 Members 0 and Alternate Members of the Eighth C.P.C. Central The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary Committee, 52 Members of the Third N.P.C. Standing cliques cooked up so many false cases in the Chinese ~ People's Liberation Army that over 80,000 people were Committee and 76 Standing Committee Members of the Fourth C.P.P.C.C. National Committee were labelled framed and persecuted, of whom 1,169 died under per­ ~ secution. "enemy agents," "renegades," "elements having illicit re­ ~ The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary lations with foreign countries," "counter-revolutionaries," ~ cliques framed and persecuted Party and government "suspected renegades" or "suspected enemy agents." The > leaders at various levels in an attempt to seize depart­ ga people framed were subsequently persecuted. They in­ mental and regional leadership that they had not yet got >z cluded the Chairman and seven Vice-Chairmen of the hold of. In January of 1968, Kang Sheng and others N.P.C. Standing Committee, 12 Vice-Premiers of the State framed cadres in the Organization Department of the Council, 22 Members and Alternate Members of the ~oliti­ ~ C.P.C. Central Committee and directly controlled leader­ t:l cal Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Committee, the General ship in that department. The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing til Secretary and 13 Members and Alternate Members of the counter-revolutionary cliques framed and persecuted large en r:n Secretariat of the C.P.C. Central Committee, six Vice­ numbers of cadres and people's policemen in people's trl Chairmen of the Military Commission of the C.P.C. Central public security organs, people's procuratorates and peo­ 21 trl Committee, and 11 leading members of various demo­ ple's courts at various levels, of whom 1,565 were hound­ en cratic parties. From 1966 to 1970, Jiang Qing at various ed to death. The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter­ meetings named 24 Members and Alternate Members of revolutionary cliques framed and persecuted large num­ the Eighth C.P.C. Central Committee and hurled false bers c! cadres in various provinces, autonomous regions charges at them, so that they were persecuted one after and municipalities directly under the central government. another. After Jiang Qing named and made false accusa­ Under the instruction and instigation of Kang Sheng, Xie tions against Zhang Linzhi, Minister of the Coal Industry, Fuzhi and others, leadership of Beijing municipality was he was illegally incarcerated and subsequently died of seized and 13 of its leading cadres were framed and per­ serious injuries !rom beating. secuted. Liu Ren and Deng Tuo, secretaries of the munic-

2Q9 210 ipal Party committee, and Vice-Mayors Wu Han and Yue . Between 1967 and 1969, the case of a ''countet· Songsheng, were persecuted to death. Leadership of revolutionary 'northeast gang' that betrayed the Party and Shanghai municipality was seized and 12 of its leading capitulated to the enemy" was trumped up under the cadres were framed and persecuted as a result of the agitation of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolu­ instruction and instigation of Zhang Chunqiao and Yao tionary cliques. In October of 1966, Jiang Qing colla­ Wenyuan. Mayor Cao Diqiu and Vice-Mayor Jin Zhong­ borated with Ye Qun in ordering Jiang Tengjiao to carry hua died from persecution. In 1967 and 1968, Zhang out an unlawful search in Shanghai of the homes of Zheng Chunqiao directly manipulated and ordered the "You Junli, Zhao Dan, Gu Eryi, Tong Zhiling and , Xuetao group" in Shanghai to undertake sucn special who were later persecuted physically. False cases con­ tasks of espionage as tailing, shadowing, kidnapping, ran­ cocted under the instruction and instigation of the Lin sacking people's homes, taking people into custody, ex­ Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary cliques led to t-3 torting confessions by torture, and fabricating intelligence. the framing and persecution of large numbers of cadres The group trumped up false cases, framed and persecuted ~ and ordinary members of Communist Party, government t-3 cadres and ordinary people, and falsely charged leading and army organs at various levels and various democratic cadres in east China with "organizing an underground ~ parties and people's organizations, cadres and other peo­ >t" armed detachment south of the Ch<~ngji::mg(Y::1"~tze) ple in various circles and returned overseas Chinese. River" and "plotting a mutiny." 0 Among those well-known figures in various circles who "1 The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary ..., were persecuted to death were: noted writers and artists cliques created large numbers of false cases, incited beat­ including Lao She, Zhao Shull, Zhou Xinfang, Gai Jiao­ ~ ing, smashing and looting throughout the country, and 0 persecuted large numbers of cadres and ordinary people. tian, Pan Tianshou, Ying Yunwei, Zheng Junli and Sun Weishi; noted professors including Xiong Qinglai, Jian ~ In 1967, Kang Sheng and others trumped up the case of a 0 Bozan, He Sijing, Wang Shourong, Gu Yuzhen, Li G~ang­ "Xinjiang renegade clique." In 1967 and 1968, Huang 0 Yongsheng and company concocted, one after another, tian, Rao Yutai, Liu Pansui and Ma Te; noted scientists "1 the case of a "Guangdong underground Party organiza­ including Zhao Jiuzhang, Ye Zhupei, Zhang Zongsui, Liu ~ 0 tion" and that of a "counter-revolutionary clique" in the Chongle, Chen Huanyong and Zhou Ren; famous medical c:: P.L.A. Guangzhou Units. Under Chen Boda's instigation, specialists including Hu Zhengxiang, Zhang Changshao, ~ a false case in eastern Hebei Province brought serious Ji Suhua, Lu Shouyan, Ye Xichun and Li Zhongren; out­ consequences with a large number of cadres and ordinary standing sports coaches including Fu Qifang, Rong Guo­ people persecuted in 1967. Kang Sheng anti Xie Fuzhi tuan and Jiang Yongning; well-known model workers rigged up the case vi ''o::no::m:t <:

211 212 minority nationalities cruelly persecuted. As a result, turned over to Lin Liguo all power to place the Air Force Jiyatai and others were pe•;;.:cuteci to death. under his command and at his disposal. In October of The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary 1970, Lin Liguo organized a secret backbone force for the ~ cliques instigated large-scale incidents of violence among armed coup,. which he named the "joint fleet." In March 0 mass organizations throughout the country, attempting of 1971, Lin Liguo, Zhou Yuchi and others mapped out in thus to seize power and cruelly suppress the people. At Shanghai a plan for the armed coup, which they named the instigation of Zhang Chunqiao, an armed clash, known Outline of "Project 571." In line with the plan for as the Kangping Road Incident, was triggered in Shang­ establishing a "command team" as described in the Out­ hai on December 28, 1966, resulting in 91 injured and line, Lin Liguo summoned Jiang Tengjiao and Wang setting a vile precedent for seizing power by instigating Weiguo, political commissar of the P.L.A. Unit 7341, Chen 0 violent incidents throughout the country. With the sup­ Liyun, political commissar of the P.L.A. Unit 7350, and 0 port of Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, Wang Xiao­ Zhou Jianping, deputy commander of the Air Force of the ~ yu, then chairman of the Shandong Provincial Revolu­ P.L.A. Nanjing Units, to a secret meeting in Shanghai on t"l tionary Committee, engineered in May of 1967 a violent March 31, at which Jiang Tengjiao was put in charge of ~ incident in the compound of the provincial revolutionary liaison between the three places of Nanjing, Shanghai ~ committee in Ji'nan, resulting in 388 persons arrested and and Hangzhou with a view to co-ordination and concerted ~ imprisoned. On Auuust 4 of the sam!! year, Wang Hong­ operation. On September 5 and 6 of the same year, after ~ wen organized and dit·ectcd people to sutTound and attack receiving secret reports first from Zhou Yuchi and then > the Shanghai Diesel Engine Plant,- resulting in 650 people from Huang Yongsheng about Chairman Mao Zedong's Cll imprisoned, injured or maimed. talks which showed that he was aware of Lin Biao's >z The Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary scheme to seize power, Lin Biao and Ye Qun decided to cliques each plotted to seize supreme Party and state take action to assassinate Chairman Mao Zedong on his ~ power for itself. While they formed an alliance, their inspection tour and stage an armed coup. On September 0 tzj sharp contradictions remained. In 1969, Lir. Biao was 8, Lin Biao issued the following hand-written order for Cll designated successor to Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1970, the armed coup: "Expect you to act according to the order 00 Lin Biao realized that the forces of Jiang Qing, Zhang transmitted by Comrades Liguo and Yuchi." Lin Liguo t"l iS Chunqiao and company were growing in such a manner and Zhou Yuchi then gave detailed assignments to Jiang t"l as to surpass his own, so he plotted to "take over" the Tengjiao and Wang Fei, deputy chief-of-staff of the Air Cll leadership ahead of schedule. While well aware that Force Headquarters, and other key members of the "joint Jiang Qing could never succeed in her ambitions, Lin Biao fleet." While the Lin Biao counter-revolutionary clique knew that it was impossible for Chairman Mao ZP.dong was plotting intensively for the armed coup, Chairman to support his "takeover" in advance. Therefore, in Mao Zedong, having been alerted by their plot, suddenly September of 1971, the Lin Biao counter-revolutionary changed his itinerary and safely returned to Beijing on clique decided to cast off its mask and stage an armed September 12. coup and assassinate Chairman Mao Zedong. As early as Aiter the failure of their plan for the assassination, Lin October of 1969, Wu Faxian, commander of the Air Force, Biao then made preparations for fleeing south with Huang

213 214 Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopeng and Qiu Huizuo to the special plane's flight to Shanhaiguan, Lin Biao decid­ Guangzhou, the base where he was prepared to stage the ed it was impossible to carry out the plan of fleeing south armed coup, in an attempt to set up a separate central to Guangzhou and setting up a separate government there. government there and split the state. At Lin Biao's order, So they boarded the plane and took off forcibly at 00:32 Hu Ping, deputy chief-of-staff of the Air Force Head­ hours on September 13 to flee abroad in defection. The quarters, had eight planes ready for the flight south to plane crashed on the way, killing all those aboard. Guangzhou. On September 12, he secretly dispatched the After learning about Lin Biao's defection, Zhou Yuchi special plane, No. 256, to Shanhaiguan for the use of Lin and others seized the helicopter, No. 3685, in Beijing and Biao, Ye Qun and Lin Liguo, who were then in Beidaihe. took off at 03:15 hours on September 13 to flee the At a few minutes past 10 o'clock that evening, Premier country, but the helicopter was forced to land. Large Zhou Enlai inquired about the unexpected dispatch of the amounts of confidential state documents stolen by the Lin special plane, No. 256, to Shanhaiguan and ordered that Biao counter-revolutionary clique and its plans for an t-3 it be brought back to Beijing at once. Hu Ping lied, say­ armed coup were captured from the helicopter. =t>l ing that the special plane, No. 256, had gone to Shan­ After Lin Biao and others died on their flight abroad, ~ haiguan on a training flight and had developed engine the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique, in an at­ > t"' trouble, refusing to carry out the order for brin~;.~git tempt to seize Party and state leadership, carried on crim­ 0 back to Beijing. Meanwhile, he reported to Zhou Yuchi inal activities to frame and persecute leading members "l that the Premier had inquired about the movement of the at various levels. From 1974 to 1976, the Jiang Qing ..., plane. Zhou Yuchi in turn reported this to Lin Liguo. counter-revolutionary clique instructed writing groups t"l While issuing directives to those in charge of the Navy such as "Liang Xiao," "Chi Heng" and "Luo Siding" to = Aviation Corps' Shanhaiguan Airport, first at 23:35 hours carry out counter-revolutionary agitation for vilifying z~ on September 12 and then at 00:06 hours on September leading cadres at various levels who had just returned to 0 13, Li Zuopeng distorted Premier Zhou Enlai's directive their posts as "having turned from bourgeois democrats 0 that the special plane, No. 256, "Cannot take off without to capitalist-readers," thus becoming targets of their so­ "l a joint order from four persons," namely, Zhou Enlai, called continued revolution. In 1976, Jiang Qing, Zhang ~ 0 Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian and Li Zuopeng, saying, Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen created c:: "The plane must not be allowed to take off unless one of new disturbances throughout the country and framed and :xl the four leading officials gives the order." At 00:20 hours persecuted large numbers of leading cadres with the on September 13, when Pan Hao, director of the Navy ultimate objective of subverting the government. In March Aviation Corps' Shanhaiguan Airport, who had discover­ Jian[! C2ing, in a talk with leading members from 12 prov­

ed the abnormal silu;,.l~vu.,t t!1t! timt!, phoned Li Zuopeng, inces and autonomous regions, named a number of lead­ asking what they should do if the plane were to· take off ing cadres at central and local levels and hurled false forcibly, Li Zuopeng still did not take any measure to charges at them. In the same year, Zhang Chunqiao prevent the plane from taking off, thus enabling Lin Biao, instigated Ma Tianshui and Xu Jingxian, vice-chairmen c.o Ye Qun and Lin Liguo to defect by the special plane, No. of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee, to 1-' 256. Learning that Premier Zhou Enlai had inquired about speak at a meeting attended by more than 10,000 people

215 216 in Shanghai and vilify leading cadres who had resumed people's militia in Shanghai," that "you must run it well work as "turning from bourgeois democrats to capitalist­ for me," that "what worries me most is that the army is roaders." In the same year, Wang Hongwen and Yao not in our hands," and that "we must be prepared for (.0 Wenyuan ordered Lu Ying, editor-in-chief of Renmin guerrilla warfare," urging them to step up the expansion 1:-,:) Ribao (People's Daily), to dispatch people to some depart­ of the "militia force." The Jiang Qing counter-revolu­ ments of the State Council and some provinces to cook tionary clique planned to use this armed force which they up materials according to their intentions for framing regarded as their own to engineer an armed rebellion in veteran cadres who had resumed work as "having organiz­ Shanghai. In August of 1976, Ding Sheng, a remaining ed landlords' restitution corps" and "trying to. reverse confederate of the Lin Biao clique who had thrown his correct verdicts and stage a comeback." They used the lot with the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique and materials to justify their seizure of power from those CJ commander of the P.L.A. Nanjing Units· at the time, 0 departments and regions which were not yet under their arrived in Shanghai. He told Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian control. From March to May of 1976, the Jiang Qing and Wang Xiuzhen, "My biggest wgrry is Unit 6453" ~ counter-revolutionary clique made up stories, slandering stationed near Shanghai, that "I have no control over it" ordinary people in Nanjing, Beijing and other places who and that "you must be prepared for any eventuality." ~ honoured the memory of Premier Zb,.,u 'Eril.ai a~"c~·.::-lter­ Ma Tianshui then made a decision and 74,220 rifles, 300 ~ revolutionaries." The clique also vilified Vice-Premier artillery pieces and more than 10 million rounds of ~ Deng Xiaoping as "the chief boss behind the counter­ ammunition were issued from a munitions depot under > revolutionary political incident" at Tian An Men Square their control to the "militia." On September 21, after 00 and agitated for large-scale suppression and persecution of being briefed in Beijing by Xu Jingxian about Ding :;;:z cadres and ordinary people. Sheng's talk and about the hand-out of weapons to the Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, principal culprits "militia," Zhang Chunqiao said to Xu Jingxian: "Keep ff c:: in the case of the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique, your eyes open for new trends in the class struggle." On t:l made Shanghai their base for building and expanding a September 23, Wang Hongwen made a telephone call to· t;; 00 "militia force" under their direct control. As early as Wang Xiuzhen, saying: "Be on your guard, for the r:n August of 1967, a report cleared by Zhang Chunqiao, en­ struggle isn't over yet. The bourgeoisie· inside the Party trl :ll titled "plans of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary will not be reconciled to defeat." On October 8, after t;; Committee for setting up the 'verbal attack and armed learning that Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan 00 defence' headquarters," called for "using the gun to pro­ and Wang Hangwen had been taken into custody, Xu tect revolution made with the pen" and for vigorously Jingxian, Wang Xiuzhen and others decided to stage an building up armeci. ro,·ce!. .;.nce.r their controL From 1973 armec! ,.~bellion.The command teams they had organb:ed to 1976, Wang Hongwen said on many occasions to Ma for the armed rebellion then moved into their command Tianshui, Xu Jingxian and Wang Xiuzhen, key members posts, and 15 transmitter-receivers were installed to link of the Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique in Shang­ them up by telecommunicctions. They also assembled hai, that "the army must not be allowed to lead the and deployed 33,500 "militiamen." On October 9, Shi militia," that "il.'s Chunqiao and me who organized the Shangying, who was in charge of the Shanghai militia

217 218 headquarters, ordered that the "militia" be concentrated culprits in the case of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing with over 27,000 guns and artillery pieces of various types. counter-revolutionary cliques, are dead, the Special Proc­ On October 12, Zhong Dingdong, another member in uratorate Under the Supreme People's Procuratorate has charge of the Shanghai militia headquarters, drew up two decided not to pursue their criminal liability, in accord­ specific operation plans, code named "Han No. 1" and ance with Article 11 of the Law of Criminal Procedure "Fang No. 2." On the evening of the same day, Wang of the People's Republic of China. The Special Proc­ Shaoyong, vice-chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Rev­ uratorate also decides that except Jiang Qing and the olutionary Committee, Zhu Yongjia, leading member of other nine principal culprits, the other defendants in the the Shanghai writing group, Chen Ada, leadi,-.g member case will be dealt with separately according to law. of the industrial and communication group of the Shang­ Following are the offences committed by Jiang Qing, hai Municipal Revolutionary Committee, and others met Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen, Chen to plan production stoppages, strikes, parades and demon­ Boda, Huang Yongsheng, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopeng, Qiu strations. They put forward the counter-revolutionary Huizuo and Jiang Tengjiao, for which they should be held ~ slogans "Return Jiang Qing to us," "Return Chunqiao to criminally liable as confirmed by this court: us," "Return Wenyuan to us~'and "Return Hongwen to (1) The defendant, Jiang Qing, who acted as a ring­ us,'' readying themselves for "a life-and-death stru~r~?;le." leader in organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary l 0 Thanks to the powerful measures adopted by the Party clique for the purpose of overthrowing the people's "l Central Committee and the struggle waged by the people democratic dictatorship, was a principal culprit in the case ..., of Shanghai, their scheme for an armed coup failed to of the counter-revolutionary clique. Jiang Qing framed ~ materialize. and persecuted Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's This court has held a total of 42 sessions for investiga­ Republic of China. Working in collaboration with Kang ~z tion and debate, during which 49 witnesses and victims Sheng and Chen Boda, she decided in July of 1967 to 0 appeared in court to testify, and 873 pieces of evidence have Liu Shaoqi persecuted physically and hence deprived 0 were examined. The above-mentioned offences committed of the freedom of action. From May of 1967, Jiang Qing "l by the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary assumed direct control of the "group for inquiring into 1-:rj 0 cliques have been verified by great amounts of material the special case of Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei" and, c:: and documentary evidence, conclusions of expert corrob­ in collusion with Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi, ordered the :ll oration, testimonies of witnesses and statements of group to extort confessions from those arrested and put victims. The facts are clear and the evidence conclusive. in custody, concoct false evidence and frame Liu Shaoqi as a "renegade," "enemy agent" and "counter-revolu­ tionary:' In order to rig up false evidence and persecute Criminal Liability of the Ten Liu Shaoqi, Jiang Qing made the decision in 1967 to arrest Principal Culprits and imprison Yang Yichen, Yang Chengzuo, Wang Guang­ en, Hao Miao and seven others. When Yang Chengzuo ~ Since Lin Biao, Kang Sheng, Xic Fuzhi, Ye Qun, Lin was critically ill, Jiang Qing decided to "step up the w Liguo and Zhou Yuchi, who were among the 16 principal interrogation" of him. As a result, Yang Chcnczuo was

219 220 persecuted to death. The special case group under Jiang which was against the law. As a result, they were per­ Qing's direction also had Wang Guangen persecuted to secuted physically. death. In collusion with Xie Fuzhi, Jiang Qing ordered In 1976, Jiang Qing worked hand in glove with Zhang co that repeated actions be taken to extort confessions from Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen to create ,j::o. Zhang Zhongyi who was critically ill. As a result, he new disturbances across the country. In a talk to leading died just two hours after an interrogation. In collabora­ members of 12 provinces and autonomous regions in tion with Kang Sheng, Xie Fuzhi and others, Jiang Qing March of the same year, Jiang Qing attacked a number instructed the special case group to extract confessions of central and local leading cadres by name on false from Ding Juequn and Meng Yongqian and rig up false charges. evidence for framing Liu Shaoqi as a "renegade." As Jiang Qing was a ringleader of the Lin Biao and Jiang (":) a result of the false charges made by Jiang Qing and Qing counter-revolutionary cliques. She bore direct or 0 others, Liu Shaoqi was imprisoned and persecuted to indirect responsibilities for all the offences, committed death. during the decade of turmoil by the counter-revolutionary ~ 21, On , Jiang Qing worked hand in glove clique she organized and led, of endangering the People's ~ with Kang Sheng in cooking up such false charges as Republic of China, working to overthrow the government 0 "renegade," "enemy agent" or "element having illicit and tyrannizing the people. relations with foreign countries" against 88 Members and The defendant, Jiang Qing, has been found guilty of ~ Alternate Members of the Eighth Central Committee of organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique the Communist Party of China. as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the ~ From 1966 to 1970, Jiang Qing named 24 Members and > People's Republic of China, of plotting to overthrow the .Z Alternate Members of the Eighth C.P.C. Central Com­ government as provided in Article 92, of conducting prop­ mittee and hurled false charges at them at various ~ aganda and agitation for counter-revolutionary purposes c:: meetings. As a result, they were persecuted one after t:l as provided in Article 102, and of framing and persecuting t;i another. (/l On December 14, 1966, Jiang Qing attacked. Zhang people as provided in Article 138. She caused particularly grave harm to the state and the people in a particularly en Linzhi (Minister of the Coal Industry- Ed.) by name tt:J flagrant way. ::a on false charges. As a result, Zhang Linzhi was illegally t;i incarcerated and beaten up, and he later died from serious (2) The defendant, Zhang Chunqiao, who collaoorated (/l wounds. On December 27 of the same year, Jiang Qing with Jiang Qing in organizing and leading a counter­ smeared Shi Chuanxiang, a national model worker and revolutionary clique for the purpose or overthrowing the a night-soil collecto1 lu Ddjin;s, :::; a "scci'b." Shi Chuan­ pcOii!"'s democratic dictatorship, was a principal culprit xiang thus suffered serious maltreatment and later died in the case of the counter-revolutionary clique. As the from torment. initiator and an all-time instigator and plotter in seizing In October of 1966, Jiang Qing collaborated with Ye power from the people's democratic political power during Qun in ordering Jiang Tengjiao to search and ransack the the decade of turmoil, he caused extremely grave harm to homes or Zhcng Junli and four other persons in Shanghai, the state and the people.

221 222 In January of 1967, Zhang Chunqiao said: "We must italist-roaders" and become targets of what they called seize power everywhere." t"rom 1967 to 11i75, he said continued revolution. on many occasions that "the great cultural revolution" Zhang Chunqiao, in collusion with Wang Hongwen and meant "a change of dynasty." He worked hand in glove others, made Shanghai their base for building up a with Jiang Qing in leading their counter-revolutionary "militia force" under their direct control, and plotted an clique in a great deal of activities aimed at usurping Party armed rebellion there. and state leadership. The defendant, Zhang Chunqiao, has been found guilty In order to seize leadership of Shanghai municipality, of organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique Zhang Chunqiao triggered off an armed clash in Shanghai as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the on December 28, 1966, known as the Kangping Road In­ People's Republic of China, of scheming to overthrow cident, which resulted in 91 injured. In May of 1967, he the government as provided in Article 92, of plotting an supported Wang Xiaoyu to engineer a violent incident in armed rebellion as provided in Article 93, of conducting >-3 Jinan, which resulted in 388 persons arrested and propaganda and agitation for counter-revolutionary pur­ =t"l imprisoned. poses as provided in Article 102, and of framing and >-3 In December of 1966, Zhang Chunqiao summoned Kuai persecuting people as provided in Article 138. He caused C!> Dafu alone and instructed him to organize a demonstra­ particularly grave harm to the state and the people in a t"' 0 tion and agitate for "overthrowing Liu Shaoqi" ior the particularly flagrant way. "1 first time in society at large. (3) The defendant, Yao Wenyuan, who organized aJ!d '"'l Leadership of Shanghai municipality was seized under led a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of =t"l Zhang Chunqiao's instruction and instigation. Twelve overthrowing the people's democratic dictatorship, was a Q leading cadres of the municipality were labelled "ren­ principal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary >z egades," "enemy agents" or "counter-revolutionaries." ·clique. He took an active part in Jiang Qing's activities 0 Cao Diqiu and Jin Zhonghua were persecuted to death. to seize supreme power. 0 Controlled and directed by Zhang Chunqiao, the "You Yao Wenyuan directly controlled the mass media and "1 ~ Xuetao group" carried out special tasks of espionage, conducted propaganda and agitation for counter-revolu­ 0 trumped up cases to persecute cadres and other people, tionary ends over a long period. From 1974 to 1976, he c: and falsely charged leading cadres in east China with instructed writing groups including "Liang Xiao," "Chi :>J "organizing an underground armed detachment south of Heng" and "Luo Siding" to vilify leading cadres at various the Changjiang () River" and "plotting a mutiny." levels who had resumed work, accusing them of having In 1976, Zhang Chunqiao collaborated with Jiang Qing, turned "from bourgeois democrats into capitalist-readers" Yao Wenyuan a;:;.::! W::.:::g H"nt;wc:: ::: crca~ingne,·: and bcome targets of the so-called continued revolution, disturbances across the country. In March of the same thus agitating for framing and persecuting them. year, Zhang Chunqiao instructed Ma Tianshui and Xu In 1967, Yao Wenyuan took an active part in seizing Jingxian to smear, at a mass meeting of 10,000 people leadership of Shanghai municipality. He joined in framing 1:0 in Shanghai, those leading cadres who had resumed work leading cadres of the municipality including Cao Diqiu. 01 as having turned "from bourgeois democrats into cap- Yao Wenyuan was one of those who supported Wang

223 224 Xiaoyu's plan to engineer a violent incident in Jinan in Shanghai Diesel Engine Plant, and 650 people were May of 1967. imprisoned, wounded or maimed. In 1976, Yao Wenyuan collaborated with Jiang Qing, In 1976, Wang Hongwen collaborated with Jiang Qing,, tO Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen in creating new Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan in creating new m disturbances across the country. From January to disturbances across the country. He instructed Lu Ying September of the same year, he instructed Lu Ying to to dispatch people to a number of provinces to fabricate dispatch people to some departments of the State Council materials according to their intentions for framing leading and some provinces to. fabricate materials according to cadres who had resumed work. their intentions so as to frame those leading r.adres who Working in collusion with Zhang Chunqiao, Wang had resumed work. From March to May of the same Hongwen made Shanghai their base for building up a (1 year, Yao Wenyuan, by trumping up charges, smeared "militia force" under their direct control. He instructed 0 people in Nanjing, Beijing and other places who mourned Ma Tianshui, Xu Jingxian and Wang Xiuzhen time and the death of Premier Zhou Enlai as ·~counter-revolutiona­ again to step up the expansion of the "militia force," and ~ a: ries," falsely charged Deng Xiaoping with being the plotted an armed rebellion in Shanghai. "0 "chief boss behind the counter-revolutionary political The defendant, Wang Hongwen, has been found guilty 0 incident" at Tian An Men Square, and agitated for sup­ of organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique ~ pressing and persecuting large numbers of cadres and as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the Peo­ ~ ordinary people. ple's Republic of China, of conspiring to overthrow the > The defendant, Yao Wenyuan, has been found guilty government as provided in Article 92, of instigating an Ul armed rebellion as provided in Article 93, of causing in­ of organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique ~ as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the Peo­ jury to people for counter-revolutionary purposes as ple's Republic of China, of plotting to overthrow the provided in Article 101, and of framing and persecuting ~ government as provided in Article 92, of conducting prop­ people as provided in Article 138. t:l l,lganda and agitation for counter-revolutivi1arJi t:nds as (5) The defendant, Chen Boda, who played an active tii Ul provided in Article 102, and of framing and persecuting part in a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of en people as provided in Article 138. overthrowing the people's democratic dictatorship, was a t'l :0 (4) The defendant, Wang Hongwen, who organized and principal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary tii led a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of clique. He took an active part in the activities of Lin Biao Ul overthrowing the people's democratic dictatorship, was and Jiang Qing to seize supreme power. a principal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary Chen Boda controlled the mass media and cond,ucted clique. He took an active> part in Jiane Qing's activitil'~ propaganda and agitation for counter-revolutionary pur­ to seize supreme power. poses. In 1966, he raised such slogans as "sweep away On December 28, 1966, Wang Hongwen participated in all· monsters and demons" and whipped up extensive triggering off the Kangping Road Incident of violence, framing and persecution of cadres and ordinary people. which resulted in 91 injured. On August 4, 1967, he In July of 1967, Chen Boda collaborated with Jiang organized and directed people to surround and attack the Qing and Kang Sheng in deciding to have Liu Shaoqi

2:!5 226 persecuted physically and deprived of his freedom of In June of 1967, Huang Yongsheng approved the "report action ever since. for instruction on investigation for the purpose of round­ From late 1966 to 1968, Chen Boda on quite a few ing up renegades," which was submitted by the head of occasions smeared Lu Dingyi, Vice-Premier of the State the military control commission stationed in the Guang­ Council, as an "active counter-revolutionary," "renegade" zhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, and its appendix, and "hidden traitor," and decided to have his health "plan for investigation, No. 1," scheming to frame Ye ruined. Jianying as a "renegade." In June of 1968, he turned over In December of 1967, Chen Boda said in Tangshan that to Ye Qun materials falsely charging Ye Jianying with the C.P.C. organization in eastern Hebei Provi:::.ce "was "plotting a counter-revolutionary coup." probably a party of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation, In 1968, Huang Yongsheng, in collaboration with Wu and in fact it might be the Kuomintang members, or Faxian, fabricated charges against Luo Ruiqing, smearing renegades, who were playing a dominant role here." A him as a "counter-revolutionary who has committed case was thus trumped up at his instigation, which ~ brought serious consequences, with many cadres and heinous crimes." Huang Yongsheng also framed leading ordinary people in eastern Hebei persecuted. cadres in the Headquarters of the P.L.A. General Staff. ~ In December of the same year, he slandered the P.L.A. > The defendant, Chen Boda, has been found guiltv of t"" actively joining a counter-revolutionary clique as provid­ General Political Department as "recruiting renegades" 0 and took an active part in Lin Biao's criminal activities 'lj ed in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the People's Re­ ..., public of China, of conspiring to overthrow the govern­ for the "thorough smashing of the P.L.A. General Political :I: ment as provided in Article 92, of conducting propaganda Department." trJ From October of 1967 to March of 1968, Huang Yong­ and agitation ·for counter-revolutionary purposes as pro­ ~ vided in Article 102, and of framing and persecuting peo­ sheng proposed to investigate the history of the under­ z 0 ple as provided in Article 138. ground C.P.C. organization in Guahgdong Province before 0 (6) The defendant, Huang Yongsheng, wno organized liberation and decided to examine the records of Wen 'lj and led a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of Niansheng, Deputy Commander of the P.L.A. Guangzhou overthrowing the people's democratic dictatorship, was a Units, and others. This gave rise to the false cases of the ~ principal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary "Guangdong underground Party organization" and a ~ clique. He actively participated in Lin Bia·o's activities "counter-revolutionary clique" in the P.L.A. Guangzhou to seize supreme power. Units. As a result, large numbers of cadres and ordinary On November 3, 1970, Huang Yongsheng agreed to the people were framed and persecuted, and the Vice­ proposal raised by t.hP e"'='11.::'in '::har;;e ~!t.h:: ~peci:llcase Governor of Guangdong, Lin Qiangyun, and Wen Nian­ of Peng Dehuai that "Peng Dehuai be dismissed from all sheng were persecuted to death. posts inside and outside the Party, expelled from the Party On September 6, 1971, Huang Yongsheng secretly for good, sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived informed Lin Biao of Chairman Mao Zedong's talks which <:0 of civil rights for life." As a result, Peng Dehuai was showed he was aware that Lin Biao was conspiring to -.1 subsequently persecuted. seize power. This prompted Lin Biao's decision to take

227 2211 action to assassinate Chairman Mao Zedong and engineer The defendant, Wu Faxian, has been found guilty of an armed coup d'etat. organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique as The defendant, Huang Yongsheng, has been found provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the People's cc guilty of organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary Republic of China, of conspiring to overthrow the govern­ 00 clique as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of ment as provided in Article 92, and of persecuting people the People's Republic of China, of conspiring to overthrow on false charges as provided in Article 138. the government as provided in Article 92, and of framing (8) The defendant, Li Zuopeng, who o.rganized and led and persecuting people as provided in Article 138. a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of over­

(7) The defendant, Wu Faxian, who organiz~dand led throwing. the people's . democratic dictatorship, was a a counter-revolutionary clique for the purpose of over­ principal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary (") throwing the people's democratic dictatorship, was a prin­ clique. Li Zuopeng took an active part in Lin Biao's 0 cipal culprit in the case of the counter-revolutionary activities to seize supreme power. ~ clique. He actively participated in Lin Biao's activities In April of 1968, he falsely accused He Long and others trl to seize supreme power. of trying to "usurp army leadership and oppose the ~ Receiving Lin Biao's instructions in August of 1966, Party." He attacked 120 cadres in the Navy by name on ~ Wu Faxian had materials prepared on September 3, false charges. ~ ::tl accusing He Long of plotting to seize lcadersnip in the At 11:35 p.m. on September 12 and at 00:06 a.m. on -< Air Force, and sent them to Lin Biao. In August of 1968, September 13, 1971, Li Zuopeng twice distorted Premier :> Wu Faxian, in collaboration with Huang Yongsheng, Zhou Enlai's directive just before the defection of Lin gJ fabricated charges against Luo Ruiqing; smearing him as Biao and Ye Qun. When Pan Hao, director of the Navy ;I>z a "counter-revolutionary who has committed heinous Aviation Corps' Shanhaiguan Airport, in an emergency crimes." phone call at 00:20 a.m. on September 13, asked for in­ wc: Wu Faxian laid false charges against a w..tmber of struction on what he should do if the plane were to take 0 tii leading cadres in the Air Force, ailegh1g that they off forcibly, Li Zuopeng did not take any measure to pre­ [/) .attempted to "seize power." He approved the detention vent the takeoff, thus allowing Lin Biao to escape abroad en and persecution of 174 cadres and rank-and-filers in the by air. Afterwards, Li Zuopeng tried to cover up his crime trl ::tl Air Force, among whom Gu Qian, Chief of Staff of the by altering the logbook entry of the relevant phone calls. tii Air Force Command of the P.L.A. Nanjing Units, and Liu The defendant, Li Zuopeng, has been found guilty of [/) Shanben. deputy superintendant of the Air Force organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique as Academy, were persecuted to death. provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the People's In October of 1969, W11FAxian turned over to Lin Lig•Jo Repu~l!cof China, of conspiring to overthrow the govern­ all power to place the .Air Force under his command and ment as provided in Article 92, and of framing and per­ at his disposal, thus enabling him to form a "joint fleet," secuting people as provided in Article 138. which constituted the backbone force in the plot of the (!l) The defendant, Qiu IIuizuo, who organized and Lin Biao counter-revolutionary clique to assassinate led a counter-revolutionary dique £or the purpose o( over­ Chairman Mao Zedong and stage an armed coup d'etat. throwing the people's democratic dictatorship, was a

220 ~3() principal culprit in the cas2 of the counter-revolutionary area. Following the failure of the plot to murder Chairman c:liquc. Qiu Huizuo took an active part in Lin Biao's Mao Zedong, Jiang Tengjiao took an active part in the activities to seize supreme power. counter-revolutionary action of Lin Biao and Ye Qun in In 1967, Qiu Huizuo instructed some persons to steal preparing for fleeing south to Guangzhou. the archives of the P.L.A. General Political Department The defendant, Jiang Tengjiao, has been found guilty and framed cadres in the department. He played an of playing an active role in a counter-revolutionary clique important role in Lin Biao's criminal activities of as provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the Peo­ "smashing the General Political Department." ple's Republic of China, of instigating an armed rebellion Between 1967 and 1971,. Qiu Huizuo set up a kangaroo as provided in Article 93, and of attempting to ldll people court in the P.L.A. General Logistics Department to extort for counter-revolutionary purposes as provided in Article confessions through torture, and directly framed and per­ 101. secuted 462 cadres and ordinary people, among whom Among the above-mentioned defendants, Wang Hong­ :i Tang Ping, Zhou Changgeng, Gu Zizhuang, Zhang Shusen, wen, Chen Boda, Wu Faxian, Li Zuopeng, Qiu Huizuo and t"l Shen Maoxing, Wang Shuchen, Zhang Lingdou and Hua Jiang Tengjiao each gave an account of the offences he ~ Diping were persecuted to death. had committed. Jiang Tengjiao confessed his offences > t:"' The defendant, Qiu Huizuo, has be~nfot'..~d ~:!!!j' of the day after Lin Biao's defection. Wu Faxian, Qiu Huizuo 0 organizing and leading a counter-revolutionary clique as and Jiang Tengjiao exposed crimes committed by Lin "l provided in Article 98 of the Criminal Law of the People's Biao, Jiang Qing and other co-defendants in the case. --3

Republic of China, of conspiring to overthrow the govern­ Huang Yongsheng confessed some of his offences. Yao ~ ment as provided in Article 92, and of framing and per­ Wenyuan described his offences as mistakes and denied secuting people as provided in Article 138. that they were crimes. Zhang Chunqiao refused to answer ~z (10) The defendant, Jiang Tengjiao, who played an the questions put to him by the bench. Jiang Qing 0 active role in the counter-revolutionary clique for the disrupted order in court. 0 purpose of overthrowing the people's democratic dictator­ "l ~ ship, was a principal culprit in the case of the counter­ 0 revolutionary clique. On March 31, 1971, Jiang Tengjiao c :>:) attended a secret meeting called by Lin Liguo in Shanghai Judgement on the Defendants According to establish a "command team" for an armed coup, at to Criminal Law which he was made the person responsible for liaison between the three places of Nanjing, Shanghai and Hang­ In view of the facts, nature and degree of the offences zhou "with a view to cu-un:ii11.:.dor. and concerted opera­ Jiang Qing and the other nine defendants committed and tion." Having received, via Lin Liguo, a hand-written the damage they did to society, and in accordance with order from Lin Biao on September 8 for an armed coup, Articles 90, 92, 93, 98, 101, 102, 103 and 138, as well as Jiang Tengjiao took part in working out the details for Articles 20, 43, 52, 53 and 64, of the Criminal Law of the c.o c.o assassinating Chairman Mao Z~dong,and assumed the People's Republic of China, this court now passes the position of first-line commander for action in the Shanghai following judgement:

231 232 Jiang Qing is sentenced to death with a two-year ping, Gan Ying, Shi Xiaotan, Ning Huanxing, Situ Qing, reprieve and permanent deprivation of political rights; Qu Yucai, Zhu Lizhi1 Ren Chenghong, Ren Lingyun, Liu Zhang Chunqiao is sentenced to death with a two-year Liying, Liu Jiguang, Xu Zongqi, Yan Xinmin, Su Ziheng, t-' 0 reprieve and permanent deprivation of political rights; Wu Baosan, Li Minggui, Li Yi, Wu Maosun, Shen Jian, 0 Yao Wenyuan is sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment Zhang Shirong, Zhang Min, Fan Zhi, , Luo and deprivation of political rights for five years; Tongqi, Gao Chaoxun, Gao Bin, Huang Liangchen, Cao Wang Hongwen· is sentenced to life imprisonment and Lizhou and Zhai Xuexi permanent deprivation of political rights; Chen Boda is sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment and This copy has been verified and found to be identical deprivation of political rights for five years; with the original. (1 Huang Yongsheng is sentenced to 18 years' imprison­ January 25, 1981 0

ment and deprivation of political rights for five years; Recording clerks: Guo Zhiwen and Huang Linyi ~ Wu Faxian is sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment and t!J deprivation of political rights for five years; Li Zuopeng is sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment and (Subheads and boldface are ours. -Ed.) ~ deprivation of political rights for fiVP vears; Qiu Huizuo is sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment and ~ deprivation of political rights for five years; Jiang Tengjiao is sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment ~ and deprivation of political rights for five years. ~ The fixed terms of imprisonment for those listed above rf who are sentenced to such a penalty shall run from the c: first day of enforcement of the sentences. Where an t:l t;:J offender has been held in prior custody, the duration of 00 such custody shall be deducted from the term of imprison­ r:n ment at the rate of one day for each day spent in prior t!J ::l custody. t!J This judgement is final. 00 January 23, 1981 The Special Court under the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic u: China President of the Supreme People's Court and concur­ rently President of the Special Court: Jiang Hua Vice-Presidents: Wu Xiuquan, Zeng Hanzhou and Huang Yukun Judges: Wang Wenzheng, Wang Zhidao, Wang Zhan-

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,., I ABOUT mE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS James C. Hsiung (Ph.D., Columbia) is Professor of Politics at New York University. H. Lyman Miller (Ph.D., George Washington) is an analyst at Foreign Broadcast and Information Service. Hungdah Chiu (S.J.D., Harvard) is Professor of Law at Universi­ ty of Maryland School of Law. Lillian Craig Harris (Ph.D., Georgetown) is a political analyst at Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the Department of State.

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