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Hello, my name's David Rundsman and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast.

Today in politics on trial, I'm talking about a trial that took place in China, in Beijing,

at the end of 1980. It's become known as the trial of the gang of four. It was more than that, but it focused on four individuals, three men and a woman, who were accused of being responsible for the worst excesses of the cultural revolution.

And then, when Mao died in 1976, of trying to cease power for themselves. It is often viewed as the definitive show trial of the late 20th century.

And in many ways it was, but it was so much more than that.

In talking about the trial of the Gang of Four as a show trial, which I'm going to do,

I'm aware I've used that phrase a lot in this series and never really defined what it means.

And that's partly because it's actually really difficult to say what a show trial is,

because it means lots of different things in different contexts. So, for instance,

one way of trying to carve out the territory of the show trial is to say that show trials,

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