Yang Shangkun was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping. Yang Shangkun was bornon August 3, 1907 in Chongqing, China of a …

Yang Shangkun. Born in Sichuan province in 1907, Yang Shangkun joined the Communist Youth League in 1925 and the Communist Party of China in 1926, and took part in the student movement in Sichuan and Shanghai in that period. From 1927 to 1930, he studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.

Sep 15, 1998 · BeijinG - A former Chinese president, Mr Yang Shangkun, has died of a long illness in Beijing at the age of 92. Mr Yang was president during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre when troops...

Sep 15, 1998 · Former Chinese President Yang Shangkun, a once-powerful army general purged earlier this decade by the late Deng Xiaoping, died Monday in Beijing at 91, state media reported.

Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, President of the People's Republic of China (de jure head of state) from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the Party after the death of Mao Zedong.

Yang Shangkun (杨尚昆; 3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was Political Commissar of the Third Army Group of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in 1932. He later was Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ...

Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 - 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, President of the PRC (de jure head of state) from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the Party after the death of Mao Zedong.

Feb 24, 2023 · Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader. He served as the President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993 and was one of the Eight Elders who dominated the Party after the death of Mao Zedong.

Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was President of China from 9 April 1988 to 27 March 1993, succeeding Li Xiannian and preceding Jiang Zemin. Yang Shangkun was born in Shuangjiang, Sichuan, Qing China in 1907, and he joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925, the...

Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.