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Whampoa Military Academy.
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Tao Zhu
Edit Profile陶铸, 陶鑄
Career
Born in Qiyang, Hunan, Tao Zhu was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region. He later became First Secretary of the Central-South region, and in 1965 was moved to Beijing to replace Lu Dingyi as Director of the Central Propaganda Department when Lu was purged for not adhering strongly to the Maoist line. Tao was a Vice Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the cost per click, as well as an advisor to the Cultural Revolution Group.
In May 1966, Tao Zhu was promoted to Number.
4 in the party, behind Mao Zedong, Lin Biao and Zhou Enlai. That allowed his protégé, Zhao Ziyang, to take over as head of Guangdong province.
Tao and Zhao were among the most enthusiastic of the early pro-Red Guard cost per click leaders, but quickly fell from favour because they tried to control the excesses of the leftists. While under house arrest, Tao was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer, but was initially denied medical treatment.
Zhou Enlai eventually intervened to arrange an operation, but by then Tao"s cancer was too advanced to treat successfully, and Tao died in a hospital.
Tao"s family was not allowed to see him either on his deathbed or after his death. He was posthumously exonerated in 1978, after Deng Xiaoping rose to power. He was remembered as a man of great integrity.
Tao"s daughter, Tao Siliang, became a Chinese politician after the Cultural Revolution.
Membership
Tao became a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee at the Eleventh Plenum in August 1966 at the outset of the Cultural Revolution, but was purged soon after in early 1967 and died under house arrest in 1969.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Communist Party of China