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With strong power of discernment and steadfastness, Chang persistently opposed Lin Piao and the "Gang of Four" for a long time. Chiang Ching, meeting in Peking with the revolutionary rebels from Hunah, said: "Chang Ping-hua opposed Comrade Lin Piao when he was in the northeast. press all over the country, except in Hunan, has reprinted the article "Critique of 'Hai Jui's Dismissal'" by Yao Wen-yuan. I must settle accounts for this Tang Chung-fu, Hu Yung, Yeh Wei-tung and others, encircled and attacked Chang many times when he returned to work in Hunan for the second time. When addressing a mass assembly of 100,000 people held in the East Wind Square (Shangsha) Chang was pushed down from the Presidium and his microphone and speech draft were snatched away by rioters. Tang Chung-fu openly declared: "I am a pawn which has crossed the river and can in no way coexist with Chang. Down his him!" Chiang Ching, on the pretext of repulsing the rightist wind of reversal of verdicts, called a conference of 15 provinces and cities to outline future action. Pointing at Chang's nose, she scolded and blamed him for supporting the Hunan opera "Song of the Gardener", intending maliciously to point the spearhead at Hua by ousting Chang it was really a wise thing to appoint such a figure who had such strong animosity for the "Gang of Four" and who had served as Standing Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, then Head of the Propaganda Department.
When he was Vice Premier, Hua and his family resided in an alley in East Four; Chang Shih-chao (and his daughter Chang Han-chih after Chang's Death) also lived in the same alley. Mrs Hua still often bicycles in and out of the alley. Her workpost is located in the Foreign Trade System and she very probably is in charge of personnel work. (Sentence as published) Oct 78
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