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Gang of Four

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Chinese political faction during the Cultural Revolution featured in Adam Curtis's documentary, discussed by a Chinese coworker as counter-revolutionary.

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"Returned to the fore after Mao's death and helped marginalize the Gang of Four, then outmaneuvered the new Chairman and took his job."
I can't stop thinking about Deng Xiaoping · u/FinanceQuestionStuff · ↑331 · 2025-05-14
"This band and other contemporary 'post punk' of the same ilk (Dry Cleaning is a huge offender) are utterly unremarkable, largely because they take the most uninteresting and generic parts of bands such as Magazine and Gang of Four and then present them as the finished product."
"Eventually I bring up "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and say how interesting I found the story of The Gang of Four and Jiang Qing were. I said something along the lines of how I couldn't believe being Mao's wife didn't save her from a death penalty. He looks me flat in the eyes for about two seconds"
I have an incredibly based Chinese coworker I met today · u/[deleted] · ↑141 · 2021-10-01
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