gang of four

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gang of Four.

   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.'"

   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

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   The symposium seriously studied Chairman Mao's teaching on militia building and Chairman Hua's important instructions on militia work and penetratingly exposed and criticized the crimes of the gang of four and their agent in Kansu in sabotaging militia building.

   1977 December 9 [1977 December 6], “Kansu PLA Holds Symposium on Militia Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 237, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 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.

   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

   This situation was all the more serious when the gang of four were running rampant. As a result of the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of four, party organizations at all levels in Pingyuan County have understood that strengthening training for management cadres and helping them smash spiritual shackles and succeed in understanding policies and their work are major measures for eliminating disorder and for doing a good job of rural management.

   1978 April 28 [1978 April 23], “Kwangtung County Trains Management Cadres”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 83, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 2

   Since the downfall of the "gang of four," Kuantien County has vigorously developed education for national minorities.[…] In the course of the struggle to thoroughly expose and criticize the "gang of four," the Education Bureau of Kuantien County, under the leadership of the upper-level party organizations, carried out readjustments at various schools in order to further improve education for national minorities.

   1978 October 20 [1978 October 6], “Liaoning County Restores School for Korean Minority”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 462, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Shenyang Liaoning Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 56

   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.

   1981, Far Eastern Affairs, number 4, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125

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1. ChinahistoricalgovernmentA radical political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials (Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen) that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

   Chinese and Japanese scholars attending a symposium on the problems facing the Peiping regime Dec. 17 reached the conclusion that the trial of the "gang of four" and six other defendants in Peiping is actually a trial of Mao Tse-tung and his thought.

   1980 December 21, “Along with 'gang of four' Mao's thought goes on trial in Peiping”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, page 1

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   Once control of the media was wrested from Mao's most strident defenders, the abusive language Chiang Ch'ing had used against her enemies over the years was hurled back at her. The verbal weapons borrowed from Lu Hsun backfired. "Ruthlessly beat the dog in the water," her enemies repeated as they vowed to fight the Gang of Four to the finish. Their claims to have been the standard-bearers of the much-exploited Lu Hsun were mocked.

   1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 472

2. broadlyAny influential (political) group having four members.
   1. broadlyengineeringSynonym of Big Four (“four largest corporations of Big Tech”).

      Synonyms: Big Four

3. entertainmentAn English post-punk band formed in 1976.