POLITICIAN

Yang Shangkun

1907 - 1998

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Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.Born to a prosperous land-owning family, Yang studied politics at Shanghai University and Marxist philosophy and revolutionary tactics at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. He went on to hold high office under both Mao Zedong and later Deng Xiaoping; from 1945 to 1965 he was Director of the General Office and from 1945 to 1956 Secretary–General of the Central Military Commission (CMC). In these positions, Yang oversaw much of the day-to-day running of government and Party affairs, both political and military, amassing a great deal of bureaucratic power by controlling things like the flow of documents, the keeping of records, and the approval and allocation of funds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yang Shangkun has received more than 705,006 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Yang Shangkun is the 1,869th most popular politician (down from 1,355th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from China (down from 90th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Chinese Politician.

Yang Shangkun was most famous for his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Memorability Metrics

  • 710k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yang Shangkuns by language

Over the past year Yang Shangkun has had the most page views in the with 200,700 views, followed by English (71,248), and Russian (28,028). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Asturian (48.42%), Cantonese (47.63%), and Serbo-Croatian (34.54%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yang Shangkun ranks 1,869 out of 19,576. Before him are Carloman of Bavaria, Ibrahim Rugova, Dangun, Sweyn II of Denmark, Menelik I, and Maroboduus. After him are Amanullah Khan, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Emperor Jing of Han, Kim Jong-suk, Yitzhak Navon, and Dongmyeong of Goguryeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Yang Shangkun ranks 23. Before him are Junji Nishikawa, Jacques Tati, Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, Robert A. Heinlein, and Lars Ahlfors. After him are Bhagat Singh, Fred Zinnemann, John Bowlby, Horst Wessel, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Sister Lúcia. Among people deceased in 1998, Yang Shangkun ranks 12. Before him are Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, and Niklas Luhmann. After him are Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, and Falco.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yang Shangkun ranks 139 out of 1,610. Before him are Sun Jian (155), Bai Juyi (772), Hongzhi Emperor (1470), Wang Jingwei (1883), Yue Fei (1142), and Mo Yan (1955). After him are Emperor Jing of Han (-188), King Wen of Zhou (-1112), Emperor Hui of Han (-210), Tang of Shang (-1601), Cao Rui (205), and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (656).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Yang Shangkun ranks 90. Before him are Emperor Huizong of Song (1082), Hong Xiuquan (1814), Jiang Ziya (-1090), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Hongzhi Emperor (1470), and Wang Jingwei (1883). After him are Emperor Jing of Han (-188), King Wen of Zhou (-1112), Emperor Hui of Han (-210), Tang of Shang (-1601), Cao Rui (205), and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (656).

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