Duels of History — Season 1, Episode 6: Jiang Qing vs. Deng Xiaoping

Episode synopsis

Did the sentencing to death of Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, enable the Chinese Communist Party led by Deng Xiaoping to absolve itself of the crimes of the Great Helmsman? Accused of counter-revolutionary crimes after Mao's death, she embodied the hard left of the Chinese Communist Party, which Deng is determined to get rid of to make way for his modernisation plan.

About Duels of History

From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Malinche vs Moctezuma
• E2Marie Curie vs Jeanne Langevin
• E3Rosa Luxembourg vs. Friedrich Ebert
• E4Angela Davis vs. Ronald Reagan
• E5Camille Claudel vs. Auguste Rodin
• E7Lucrezia Borgia vs. Pope Alexander VI
• E8Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs
• E9Messalina vs. Agrippina
• E10Marie-Antoinette vs. Maximilien Robespierre