Wu Han
Chinese historian
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role in Chinese history
- In China: Attacks on cultural figures
…first target was the historian Wu Han, who doubled as the deputy mayor of Beijing. In a play Wu wrote, he supposedly had used allegorical devices to lampoon Mao and laud the deposed former minister of defense, Peng Dehuai. The denunciation of Wu and his play in November 1965 constituted…
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