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Kang Sheng died of bladder cancer on December 16, 1975. He was given a formal funeral, attended by every member of the Politiburo except Mao, who did not attend funerals at this stage, and Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, who both were too weak to attend.
Kang Sheng (born 1898, Zhucheng, Shandong province, China—died Dec. 16, 1975, Beijing) 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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
Jan 26, 1992 · Indeed, when Kang Sheng died in December, 1975, he was hailed as a great revolutionary hero and buried with full honors in the Babaoshan cemetery. However, within months, Mao himself was dead...
After his death on December 16th 1975, Kang Sheng was given a full Communist Party funeral, where he was praised as a “proletarian revolutionary”. In October 1980, just before the disgraced Gang of Four were placed on trial, Kang Sheng was posthumously expelled from the Party.
4. The purges, overseen by Mao’s security chief Kang Sheng, were often brutal. Members were imprisoned, tortured and even executed, while many committed suicide. 5. Rectification ceased when Mao had re-established and increased his authority.
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After the death of Mao and the subsequent arrest of the Gang of Four, Kang Sheng was accused of sharing responsibility with the Gang for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution and in 1980 he was expelled posthumously from the CCP.
