Third, why Kang Sheng chose to report the historical problem of his long-term ally (Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao) to Mao Zedong will also be discussed in this paper.
Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife, wrote operas; Zhang Chunqiao was a political thinker; Wang Hongwen, an organising type, had been an official in a textile mill.