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Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.
Sep 15, 1998 · Yang Shangkun, former President of China and military leader who orchestrated crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989 on Tiananmen Square, dies at age 91; photo (M)
Oct 1, 1998 · Yang Shangkun is almost the last to leave for paradise. Mr Yang and the others joined the fledgling Communist Party in the 1920s, and survived the rigours of the Long March in the mid-1930s.
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Yang Shangkun was a close ally of Deng Xiaoping and served as president of China from 1988 to 1993. He played a key role in the Tiananmen crackdown and was ousted by Jiang Zemin in 1992.
Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.
Yang Shangkun. Born in Sichuan province in 1907, Yang Shangkun joined the Communist Youth League in 1925 and the Communist Party of China in 1926, and took part in the student movement in Sichuan and Shanghai in that period. From 1927 to 1930, he studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. After his return to China in 1931 he served as ...
Sep 15, 1998 · BEIJING -- Yang Shangkun, 92, the last of China's military strongmen, died Sept. 14 after a career that spanned the guerrilla wars of the 1930s, the political campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, and ...
