Yao chi liang zhao ziyang biography

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    Zhao Ziyang

    Chinese legislator (1919–2005)

    In that Chinese name, the stock name silt Zhao.

    Zhao Ziyang

    Zhao in 1985

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

    Serving with Yang Shangkun

    ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
    Born

    Zhao Xiuye


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

    Liang Boqi

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    (m. 1944)​
    Children6
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    Central institution membership

    • 1987–1989: Thirteenth Central Force Commission
    • 1980–1989: Eleventh, 12th, Thirteenth Politburo Awareness Committee
    • 1979–1989: Eleventh, 12th, Thirteenth Politburo
    • 1972–1989:
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      Zhao Ziyang

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

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

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

      Just before the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, Zhao was arrested, along with many of his followers, and replaced as Secretary General of the Communist Party. He was last seen in public on 19 May that year when he visited the students on hunger strike on Tiananmen Square and, with tears in his eyes, told them, "I came too late."

      Standing next to him in

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

      My wife, Sheryl, and I knew where Zhao was kept under house arrest, and of course we wanted to get his story. So we found out his birthday (harder than it seemed — it was a state secret), and so on Oct. 17, 1989, Sheryl (a Chinese-American) went to the door with a birthday cake. The guards, seeing a young Chinese woman bearing a cake, didn’t perceive a threat and assumed she was a relative or close friend of the family. Sheryl didn’t mention that she worked for the NY Times but simply said she was there with a cake for Zhao’s birthday. So they let her in and she spoke to one of Zhao’s family members, delivering the cake, leaving her contacts, and saying how much we wanted to get Zhao’s side of the story. The family was too scared, though, and nothing came of it (although they didn’t rat on Sheryl, who was able to walk back through the guards). Ah, the adventures of Beijing!

      In his secret journals, Zhao describes slowly coming to believe that China nee