Hua Kuo-feng and the Arrest of the “Gang of Four”

Abstract

On 9 September 1976, at 4 p.m., Peking time, Radio Peking announced that Chairman Mao Tse-tung had died that morning at ten minutes past midnight, at the age of 82, because of his steadily worsening physical condition. The actual cause of death, beyond his age, was not given, but it was generally believed that he died of advanced Parkinson's disease or cerebral arteriosclerosis.