Yang Shangkun
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Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.
Yang in the 1960s
Yang in 1940
Yang (right) with Nikolai Bulganin in 1957
Yang meeting with President of the United States Ronald Reagan during his state visit to the United States in 1987
Eight Elders
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The Eight Great Eminent Officials, abbreviated as the Eight Elders, were a group of elderly members of the Chinese Communist Party who held substantial power in the last two decades of the 20th centur
Yang Shangkun
…Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong. Born to a prosperous land-owning family, Yang studied politics at Shanghai University and Marxist…
Deng Xiaoping at the arrival ceremony for the Vice Premier of China
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Li Xiannian 1985