GANG OF FOUR

WHO

• Highest ranking leaders of CCP
• Members of Politburo
• Zhang and Wang on Standing Committee
• Maos wife Jiang Qing was leader
• Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao

WHAT

• Controlled four areas of government
• Intellectual education
• Theories of Social Sciences
• Teacher-student relations/discipline
• Intellectual party policies

WHEN

• Supported Mao until 1971
• 1971 Rightists opposed them
• Mao died September 1976
• Hua arrested Gang of Four 1976

WHERE

• China

WHY

• Ideally support Maos ideals
• Supposedly betrayed him
• Had different ideals