Yang Shangkun
| Yang Shangkun | |
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| 杨尚昆 | |
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| 4th President of the People's Republic of China | |
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In office 9 April 1988 – 27 March 1993 |
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| Premier | Li Peng |
| Vice President | Wang Zhen |
| Leader |
Deng Xiaoping Jiang Zemin |
| Preceded by | Li Xiannian |
| Succeeded by | Jiang Zemin |
| Secretary-General of the CPC Central Military Commission | |
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In office August 1945 – November 1956 |
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| Succeeded by | Huang Kecheng |
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In office July 1981 – November 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Geng Biao |
| Succeeded by | Yang Baibing |
| Member of the National People's Congress |
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In office 21 December 1964 – 13 January 1975 |
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| Constituency | PLA At-large |
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In office 25 March 1988 – 15 March 1993 |
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| Constituency | Sichuan At-large |
| 7th Mayor of Guangzhou | |
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In office 1979–1981 |
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| Preceded by | Jiao Linyi |
| Succeeded by | Liang Lingguang |
| Personal details | |
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3 August 1907 Tongnan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Qing Dynasty |
| Died | 14 September 1998 (aged 91) Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Li Bozhao (m. 1929–1985) (her death) |
| Children | Yang Shaoming Yang Shaojun Yang Li |
| Alma mater | Shanghai University, Moscow Sun Yat-sen University |
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| Simplified Chinese | 杨尚昆 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊尚昆 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yáng Shàngkūn |
Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping. He married Li Bozhao in 1929, one of the few women to participate in the Long March, as did Yang.
Yang attended university in Shanghai before studying Marxist theory in Moscow, making him one of the best educated leaders of the early Communist Party of China. Yang returned to China as one of the 28 Bolsheviks and originally supported the early communist leader Zhang Guotao, but switched allegiance to Mao's faction during the Long March. He served as a political commissar during the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Yang held a number of political positions, eventually becoming a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was purged when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, and was not recalled until 1978, after Deng Xiaoping rose to power. After his return to power, Yang became one of China's Eight Elders. Yang promoted economic reform but opposed political liberalization, a position which Deng eventually came to identify with. Yang reached the height of his political career after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but his organized opposition to Jiang Zemin's leadership led Deng to force Yang to retire.
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