Wang Hongwen
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Wang Hongwen (1935—1992) was one of China's Gang of Four, and a leader of the Cultural Revolution in the early 1970s. The Cultural Revolution was a payback program on an enormous scale, Mao Zedong's way of punishing teachers, party members, and all his other perceived enemies. In 1973, Wang was promoted to No. 3 in the party leadership, behind only Mao and Zhou Enlai. However, when Zhou died in 1976 Wang was passed over in favour of Hua Guofeng, "China's Gerald Ford," a little-known security bureaucrat.