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Madame Mao
The Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. Among those jockeying for power after his death, was his widow Jiang Qing. American, Sidney Rittenberg, remembers her rise and fall.
(Photo: Jiang Qing (right) alongside Mao Zedong in 1967. Credit AFP/Getty Images)
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