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Kang Sheng ( Chinese: 康 生; pinyin: Kāng Shēng; 4 November 1898 – 16 December 1975) was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A ...
Jan 26, 1992 · Kang Sheng, it became clear, had played a pivotal role in the persecution of hundreds of thousands of individuals, including the highest-ranking officials in the government and party; he...
Jan 27, 1992 · Convincingly comparing Kang to Beria, head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin, the authors show how Kang rose from obscure roots in feudal Chinese society to become the mastermind of the Communist police state and the ``bad cop'' of the terrifying Cultural Revolution.
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Kang Sheng was a Chinese communist official who is considered to have been one of the three or four most powerful individuals in the government during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). Most Chinese communist leaders belonged to the peasantry, but Kang was born into a large landholding family.
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Jul 25, 2014 · In this episode we take a look at Kang Sheng, a Communist Party of China official whose infamy stems from overseeing the Party's internal security and intelligence units during the early 1940s...
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Dec 17, 1975 · HONG KONG, Wednesday, Dec. 17—Kang Sheng, a deputy chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and one of the country's senior leaders, died yesterday in Peking after a prolonged illness. He was 76...
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Jul 19, 1992 · THE CLAWS OF THE DRAGON Kang Sheng -- the Evil Genius Behind Mao -- and His Legacy of Terror in People's China. By John Byron and Robert Pack. Illustrated. 560 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster....
