Gang of Four and which were the result of the Gang of Four's own planning. The Gang of Four, together with disgraced general Lin Biao who died in 1971, were labeled the two major "counter-revolutionary forces" of the Cultural Revolution and officially blamed by the Chinese government for the worst excesses of the societal chaos that ensued during the ten years of turmoil. Their downfall on October 6, 1976, a mere month after Mao's death, brought about major celebrations on the streets of Beijing and marked the end of a turbulent political era in China. Their fall did not amount to a rejection
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life. The original newspaper serialization was incomplete. The remaining sections were published concurrently in two literary journals, "Reconstruction" ("Kaizō", volume 12, number 9) and "New Currents" ("Shinchō", volume 27, number 9). Markedly different from Kawabata's later work, "The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa" was greatly influenced by Western modernism. The annotated edition of this novel, translated by Alisa Freedman, includes the original illustrations by Ota Saburo and a foreword and an afterword by Donald Richie. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what