The older one is Lan Ping, later known as Jiang Qing, who would become notorious as Madame Mao, the Chairman’s fourth wife and the Stalinist motor of the Cultural Revolution. Qing is a pragmatic ...

Amy Ng’s new play begins in 1930s China as a starving teenager we will come to know as Sun Weishi (Millicent Wong) stumbles into a theatre where the future Jiang Qing (Gabby Wong) is practicing ...

Spanning six decades, it tracks the interwoven history of two women who were pivotal in the political and cultural upheavals of Mao Zedong’s revolution ... into Jiang Qing, Mao’s fourth ...

Early on in Shanghai Dolls, two impoverished young actresses swear by “Marx and Lenin” and by “Chekhov and Ibsen” to “make revolution ... Chinese women, Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi ...

The encounter is based on a true story: the starstruck wannabe Lan Ping, who dreams of freedom, goes on to change her name to Jiang Qing and become Madam Mao, wife of Mao Zedong, and driving force of ...

For better or (mostly) worse, Jiang Qing left her mark on the 20th century. Even before she was married to Chairman Mao, Jiang was a charismatic actor, and her passion for culture helped her ...

Some Chinese political commentators argue America has descended into its version of Mao’s nightmarish Cultural Revolution ... role of Mao’s fourth wife Jiang Qing. His young software engineers ...

One is the appointment of an outsider, Elon Musk, to lead the assault on the federal bureaucracy, just as Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, was put in charge of his “Cultural Revolution Leading Small ...

He elevated his wife, Jiang Qing, to a leading role in the Cultural Revolution, but at times also refused to see her. Lin Biao, the minister of national defense and Mao’s chosen successor in the ...

Jiang Qing. In April 1973, two months before he turned 40, Abbado landed in Beijing with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to perform several concerts in the capital. The Cultural Revolution would ...

Jiang Qing became a member of the Politburo in 1969. She formed the Gang of Four to lead the Cultural Revolution. It is believed that Chairman Mao thought in his later days that he could only trust ...