Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
January Storm in Shanghai (1967)
On the Mao’s China map as “The January Storm”
Jan–Feb 1967 — Rebel workers led by Wang Hongwen and backed by Zhang Chunqiao seize power from Shanghai’s Party committee, with Mao’s blessing; on 5 February they proclaim the Shanghai People’s Commune. Mao has it renamed a revolutionary committee within three weeks, the model of power seizure the rest of China followed.
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- Cultural Revolution (chapter 9 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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