Abstract
Few years in the quarter of a century long history of the People's Republic of China have been as politically critical and as politically complex as has been 1976. In that eventful year, China lost its two most influential leaders, Premier Chou En-lai, on January 8, and Chairman Mao Tse-tung, on September 9. That same year witnessed the meteoric rise of Hua Kuo-feng, a newcomer to the Politburo of the Party's Tenth Central Committee in 1973, first as Chou En-lai's successor (as acting premier, then assuming the position in his own right in April 1976), then as Mao's successor by his official appointment by the Central Committee of the Party on October 7, 1976, as Party chairman and chairman of its important Military Affairs Commission.
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