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Ep. 168 | Zhou Enlai (Part 8)

The China History Podcast

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Deng Xiaoping's Dilemma

On January 10th, his body lay in state. 40,000 selected guests were permitted to attend the wake. The next day, the hearse carried Joe's body away to the cemetery for cremation. Dungying child never held any party or government positions. She merely served her husband and who knows how many different ways. Mao did a nice thing though and set her up as a vice chairman of the National People's Congress,. This gave dungying child enough status and rank to live according to the standards that she should have lived.

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