Editing 1976 Tiananmen incident (section)

== Legacy ==
After Mao's death, Hua and [[Wang Dongxing]] played an important role in arresting the Gang of Four in October 1976. They subsequently expressed their opinion that the Tiananmen incident was not a counter-revolutionary activity. Along with other party elders, they [[Political rehabilitation|rehabilitated]] Deng and brought him back to Beijing. Nonetheless, Deng and his reformist allies subsequently became involved in a power struggle against Hua and Wang, who were more traditionally minded Maoists. Deng emerged as China's [[Paramount Leader]] in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=中国改革开放40再出发 |trans-title=Starting Again from China's Reform and Opening Up in the 40th Anniversary |url=http://interactive.zaobao.com/2018/china-40-years-of-reform/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=中国改革开放40再出发 |language=en |quote=1978年后，邓小平成为中共最高领导人，引导中国走上改革开放道路，被称为“中国改革开放的总设计师”。}}</ref>

Many of the 1976 demonstrators had written poems in memory of Zhou Enlai and as an expression of political opposition to the political situation in China.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lattimore |first1=David |title=Politics an Poems |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/12/books/politics-an-poems.html |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=New York Times |date=12 April 1981 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112145056/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/12/books/politics-an-poems.html |archive-date=12 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Poetry created during the incident was later published in four unofficial editions by students from Beijing's Number Two Foreign Language Institute, a school with close ties to Deng Xiaoping.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kraus |first1=Richard Curt |title=Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy |date=1991 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=978-0520072855 |pages=132–135 |url=http://www.tsquare.tv/film/TNMpoems.html |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021015124406/http://tsquare.tv/film/TNMpoems.html |archive-date=15 October 2002 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In December 1978, at the Third Plenum of the CCP Eleventh Central Committee, the Chinese Communist Party reassessed its position on the Tiananmen incident of 1976 and declared it a "revolutionary event", a complete rebuttal of the previous position put forward by the Party.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jian |first1=Guo |last2=Song |first2=Yongyi |last3=Zhou |first3=Yuan |title=Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution |date=2006 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810864917 |page=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5-4zOdHKOIC&q=tiananmen+poems+1976&pg=PA288 |access-date=12 November 2019}}</ref>