Mao Zedong's Standard-Bearer: Jiang Qing and the 'Cultural Revolution' (Volume 2)

First arm, then criticize.

I also have some legal rights; when I go to get close to the masses, I have to take a special plane, and sometimes there are special trains—I must take them. I cannot take a long-distance bus; I have to rest after sitting for a few hours. There is no other way because of my poor health! The organization takes care of me. In the past, they said: 'When the governor leaves the court, the earth moves and the mountains shake.' Doesn't my coming out also cause quite a stir?

──Jiang Qing's talk in the peanut fields of the Rural Branch of Tsinghua University (1976.9.28) (Excerpt from the afternoon of September 28, 1976)

A complete compilation and organization of historical materials, this book is divided into two volumes. It detailedly records over 400,000 words of on-site speeches by Jiang Qing, one of the main promoters of the "Cultural Revolution." The book covers the period from 1968 to 1976, focusing on documents from the Cultural Revolution era, with content involving political movements and literary and artistic instructions. It includes trial documents for Jiang Qing and others, a chronology of Jiang Qing's life, as well as monographs on Cultural Revolution research and research papers on Jiang Qing. It provides a comprehensive and in-depth display of Jiang Qing's concepts and practices during the Cultural Revolution movement.