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| {{Infobox politician
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| |name=Zhang Chunqiao
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| |native_name=张春桥
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| |birth_date=1 February 1917
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| |birth_place=Juye, Shandong, [[Republic of China]]
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| |death_date=21 April 2005 (aged 88)
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| |death_place=Jiangyin, Jiangsu, [[People's Republic of China]]
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| |death_cause=Cancer
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| |nationality=Chinese
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| |political_orientation=[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br>[[Mao Zedong Thought]]<br>[[Anti-revisionism]]
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| |political_party=[[Communist Party of China|CPC]]
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| |image=File:1967-07_1967年4月20日北京市革命委员会成立_张春桥-上海革委会主任.jpg}}{{Maoism sidebar}}
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| '''Zhang Chunqiao'''{{efn|Also transcribed Chang Chun-chiao}} was a [[China|Chinese]] polititian, leading member of the [[Gang of Four]] and director of the [[Shanghai Revolutionary Committee]]. He is considered by many [[Maoism|Maoists]] to be the best potential succesor to [[Mao Zedong]]
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| ==Early Life==
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| He was born in Juye, Shandong Province, [[Republic of China]] into a wealthy landlord family, other than that not much is known about his early life except for that he would eventually drift towards [[Marxism-Leninism]] and give up his capital. Zhang joined the Shanghai chapter of the League of Chinese Left-Wing Writers in 1936
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| ==Joining the Communist Party of China==
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| In 1938 he would travel to Yan’an and join the Communist Party of China. During the war against Japan he became a cadre of guerrillas operating in Japanese controlled territory in north and east China. In this time he would begin to read [[Stalin]], Mao and others as to deepen his understanding of [[Marxism]]. He would eventually become the editor-in-chief of Jin-Cha-Ji Daily and New Shimen Daily. In the People’s Republic of China, he held positions such as the president of Liberation Daily, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, head of the Propaganda Department and alternate member of the Municipal Party Committee. His article 'Do Away with the Ideology of Bourgeois Right' gained him attention from Mao Zedong and [[Jiang Qing]], the article was praised by Mao and eventually published in the People’s Daily in 1958.
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| ==Cultural Revolution==
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| ==Shanghai Revolutionary Committee==
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| ==In the Gang of Four==
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| ==Trial and death==
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| ==References==
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| ===Notes===
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| {{notelist}}
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