Zhao Ziyang

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Zhao Ziyang was a Chinese reformist politician and premier who later became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and was purged for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese politician
Communist politician
human
birthDate 1919-10-17
burialPlace undisclosed location in China
causeOfDeath stroke
consequence placed under house arrest
removed from the post of General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
countryOfCitizenship China
deathDate 2005-01-17
detentionDuration from 1989 until his death in 2005
detentionType house arrest
event 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre NERFINISHED
gender male
knownFor leading economic reforms in China in the 1980s
opposition to the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
languageSpoken Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
memberOf Chinese Communist Party NERFINISHED
mentorOrKeyAlly Deng Xiaoping NERFINISHED
name Zhao Ziyang NERFINISHED
nationality Chinese
nativeName 赵紫阳 NERFINISHED
officeEnd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, 1989
Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1987
officeStart General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, 1987
Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1980
placeOfBirth Hua County, Henan, China NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Beijing, China NERFINISHED
placeOfDetention his residence in Beijing
politicalIdeology economic reformism
politicalStatusAfter1989 disgraced leader
positionHeld Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong NERFINISHED
Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan NERFINISHED
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party NERFINISHED
Premier of the People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
precededBy Hu Yaobang as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Hua Guofeng as Premier of the People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
punishedBy Chinese Communist Party leadership NERFINISHED
reasonForPunishment opposition to military crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests
religion atheism
roleInEvent advocated dialogue and opposed use of force during 1989 Tiananmen protests
succeededBy Jiang Zemin as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party NERFINISHED
Li Peng as Premier of the People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
workedOn decentralization of economic decision-making
market-oriented economic policies
rural economic reforms

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Hu Yaobang replacedBy Zhao Ziyang