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Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.
Sep 15, 1998 · Yang Shangkun, a former President of China and the military leader who orchestrated the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989 on Tiananmen Square, died early today, the Chinese...
Oct 1, 1998 · Yang Shangkun, a Chinese “immortal”, died on September 14th, aged 91. Oct 1st 1998. IN CHINESE mythology, the eight Immortals were born human but now live on Penglai Shan, an island...
Sep 14, 1998 · Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.
Sep 15, 1998 · BEIJING -- Yang Shangkun, 92, the last of China's military strongmen, died Sept. 14 after a career that spanned the guerrilla wars of the 1930s, the political campaigns of the...
Yang Shangkun. Born in Sichuan province in 1907, Yang Shangkun joined the Communist Youth League in 1925 and the Communist Party of China in 1926, and took part in the student movement in Sichuan and Shanghai in that period. From 1927 to 1930, he studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.
Sep 14, 1998 · Rightly or wrongly, Yang Shangkun is the man most closely associated in the minds of ordinary Chinese with the decision to use lethal force against student protesters.
