New Criticism Campaigns

All this is part of the current massive campaign throughout China to 'expose' and criticize the Gang of Four.—Chaing Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un Ch'aio, Yao Wen Yan and Wang Hun-Wen—all once prominent members of the Communist Party—are now universally disgraced.

Criticism of the Gang of Four was so intense and repetitive that certain dubious and lazy mind people in the Delegation became fed up to the point of crying "not the Fucking Gang of Four again"!.

Both families I spoke to in Kwangchow informed me that criticism of the Gang of Four was taking up all their twice weekly political study classes at the factories where they worked. I was then very interested in learning their own views and how the Gang of Four may have directly disrupted or affected their lives.

The substance of many of the charges made against the Gang of Four did not really become apparent to me until my informal conversations with my Aunt's family and with Mr and Mrs Choong (the other family). The major charge against the Gang of Four was that they directly and indirectly disrupted and sabotaged production throughout China.