This polity was dominated by Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao, two members of the Gang of Four, and lasted for only a brief period during the Cultural Revolution in 1967.
It was contemporaneous with an organization set up in Harbin, and the groundwork for it was elucidated in an editorial in the Hung-ch'i by Cheng Chih-ssu that addressed the "Great Lessons" of its inspiration. It was established by the "January Storm," although its name was quickly changed to the "revolutionary committee" to avoid associations with the democracy of its inspiration, created 95 years before it. A similarly named organization was established in 1927 after a strike of some 800,000 workers, although it was ended by order of Chiang Kai-shek in the April 12 Incident. This polity was dominated by Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao, two members of the Gang of Four, and lasted for only a brief period during the Cultural Revolution in 1967. FTP, identify this polity modeled after an 1871 ? government dominated by Adolphe Thiers, established in a city on the Yangtze River Delta.
It was contemporaneous with an organization set up in Harbin, and the groundwork for it was elucidated in an editorial in the Hung-ch'i by Cheng Chih-ssu that addressed the "Great Lessons" of its inspiration.
{Shanghai People's Commune}