Wang Dongxing

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Wang Dongxing

汪东兴

汪東興

Transcriptions
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wāng Dōngxìng
Wade–Giles	Wang¹ Tung¹-hsing⁴
IPA	[wɑ́ŋ tʊ́ŋɕîŋ]

Wang Dongxing (born 1916 in Yiyang County, Jiangxi) was Mao Zedong's principal bodyguard during the Cultural Revolution.

As commander of the 8341 Special Regiment, Mao's personal elite bodyguard force, but was dismissed by Mao for excessive protection, and sent to a labor reform camp. He later was reinstated. Wang Dongxing was instrumental in the coup d'état against the Gang of Four immediately after Mao's death.

He was prominent under Hua Guofeng, being one of the five members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China. He lost power as Deng Xiaoping rose to supreme power and was deprived of all his posts in the early 1980s.

As a gesture both to his role in the coup d’etat and to signal that political foes would no longer be persecuted, Wang was elected to the very last alternate position of the CPC Central Committee at the 1982 12th National Party Congress.

Sources

The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Li Zhisui, Arrow Books 1996
Mao's Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Harvard University Press 2006.

v t e The Cultural Revolution

Major events	Socialist Education Movement Lushan Conference Down to the Countryside Movement January Storm February Countercurrent Wuhan Incident 9th Party Congress Project 571 Outline 10th Party Congress Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius Tiananmen Incident 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Key figures	Mao Zedong Liu Shaoqi Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Gang of Four (Jiang Qing Zhang Chunqiao Yao Wenyuan Wang Hongwen) Peng Dehuai Wu Han Peng Zhen Chen Boda Wang Dongxing Xie Fuzhi Kang Sheng Mao Yuanxin

Documents	Bombard the Headquarters The Little Red Book Hai Rui Dismissed from Office Learn from Daqing in industry

Concepts	Four Olds Struggle session Feudal Fascism Two Whatevers Big-character poster One Divides Into Two Democracy Wall Eight model plays Scar literature Capitalist roader

Groups	Red Guards Cultural Revolution Group Revolutionary Committee Shanghai People's Commune 8341 Special Regiment The Rusticated Youth of China

Related topics	Maoism Great Leap Forward Class struggle Sino-Soviet Split Ultra-Leftism

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Name	Wang, Dongxing
Alternative names
Short description	Mao Zedong's bodyguard
Date of birth	1916
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