Ye Qun
Ye Qun | |
|---|---|
Communist Party of China | |
| Spouse | Lin Biao |
| Children | Lin Liheng, Lin Liguo |
Ye Qun (
Early life
Ye Qun was born in
In 1942, Ye Qun married Lin Biao, with whom she had two children: son Lin Liguo (林立果) and daughter Lin Liheng (林立恒).
Political career
During the
In 1960, he returned to Beijing from Guangzhou and served as director of Lin Biao's office. In late 1965, she assisted Lin Biao in bringing down his adversary,
After 1967, Ye Qun was first a member of the All Army's
French
"a real educational background, the aspirations of midinette, the taste for money, the fear of her husband, an unlimited admiration for her son and finally panic in the face of danger."
Project 571 and death
During the Cultural Revolution, tensions between Jiang Qing and Lin Biao's faction escalated. According to Party documents, in early 1971, it was Ye Qun who asked her son Lin Liguo to assassinate Mao Zedong during his trip to Shanghai, as part of the plan known as Project 571. The attempt failed, as Mao suddenly changed his plans and returned to Beijing on the evening of September 12. This led to Ye Qun believe that the plan had been exposed. Following the failure of their plans, Ye Qun, Lin Liguo and Lin Biao decided to flee, but their daughter Lin Liheng revealed their escape plan to Premier Zhou Enlai.[4]
Presumably fearing to lose time, the Lin family, including Lin Biao, Ye Qun, and Lin Liguo, fled in a
Further information from the Party documents later released state:
"the plane was making for the
Mongolia on September 13, 1971, burning to death all on board."[5]
However, according to the historian J. D. Spence, "this story is essentially beyond verification, since the photographs later released by the Chinese authorities are of dubious authenticity and details on Lin Biao’s exact plans and on the other plotters are blurred" The government narrative also does not sufficiently explain how and why Lin Biao's plane crashed. It is also still unclear whether Lin Biao himself planned a coup, or whether his Ye Qun and Lin Liguo had such plans and did not inform Lin Biao about it. Skeptics have claimed that Lin's decision to flee to the Soviet Union was illogical, on the grounds that the United States or Taiwan would have been safer destinations.[5]
On August 20, 1973, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party posthumously expelled Ye Qun from its ranks. In 1981, the Supreme People's Court confirmed her as the principal ringleader of the Lin Biao 'counter-revolutionary group'.[citation needed]
See also
References
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- ^ a b 揭秘：林彪妻子叶群和手下黄永胜之间的特殊关系
- ^ 林彪长女忆叶群：我有一个很坏的“后妈”
- ^ The search for modern China. New York: Norton. p.585.