gang of four

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gang of four

  1. Alternative form of Gang of Four
    • 1976 December 6 [1976 December 2], “SHENSI DAILY Reports on Tachai Movement”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 235, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page M 3:
      Paishui County CCP Committee proposed: "We must go all out and aim high. From now to the end of this year, we must work hard to completely fulfill our production tasks, and recoup the losses caused by the interference and sabotage of the 'gang of four.'"
    • 1978 March 30 [1978 March 27], “Extravagant Funeral in Anhwei County Criticized”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China, volume I, number 62, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 1:
      The provincial CCP Committee has dealt blows at the frantic attack launched by the bourgeoisie, advanced proletarian justice and greatly promoted the revolutionary activism of the cadres and masses in Kuoyang County in resolutely fighting well the third campaign to expose and criticize the gang of four.
    • 1981, Far Eastern Affairs, number 4, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125:
      The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing pogroms in Moslem mosques and other holy places. Mao's successors have been clamouring for Moslems to preserve the Islamic cultural heritage. The blame for all the excesses in the Islamic policy has been heaped upon the "gang of four" and Lin Biao.