Hu Yaobang

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Hu Yaobang was a reformist Chinese Communist Party leader and former General Secretary whose liberal policies and death in 1989 helped spark the Tiananmen Square protests.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese Communist Party politician
Chinese politician
human
reformist leader
birthDate 1915-11-20
birthPlace Liuyang
surface form: Liuyang, Hunan, China
burialPlace Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
causeOfDeath heart attack
closeAllyOf Deng Xiaoping
countryOfCitizenship China
surface form: People's Republic of China
deathDate 1989-04-15
deathPlace Beijing
surface form: Beijing, China
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Hu
fullName Hu Yaobang self-link
givenName Yaobang
honoredIn public mourning in April 1989 in Beijing
influenced Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
surface form: Chinese student movement of 1989

political reform discourse in China in the 1980s
knownFor his death triggering the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
promoting political and economic reforms in China
rehabilitating victims of the Cultural Revolution
supporting intellectuals and students
memberOf Chinese Communist Party
movement Chinese economic reform
political reform in China
nativeLanguage Chinese
numberOfChildren 5
officeEndTime as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: 1982
as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party: 1987
officeStartTime as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: 1981
as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party: 1982
participatedIn Chinese Civil War
Long March
party Chinese Communist Party
politicalIdeology liberalization within the Chinese Communist Party
reformist communism
positionHeld Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
President of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
surface form: Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
precededBy Hua Guofeng
rehabilitatedAfter Cultural Revolution
religion atheism
replacedBy Zhao Ziyang
spouse Li Zhao
wasPurgedDuring Cultural Revolution
workedUnder Deng Xiaoping

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