The wife of China’s Chairman Mao wielded tremendous power during some of the most tumultuous years in the world’s largest nation. Jiang Qing (1914-1991) has been blamed for some of the worst outrages of the Cultural Revolution – particularly the brutal campaigns of the Red Guard, roving gangs of young, fanatical Maoists who publicly humiliated, imprisoned and frequently executed anyone suspected of not being radical enough –  targeting those they identified as “intellectual” or “artistic,” which they saw as bourgeois decadence. Jiang claimed she was only following Mao’s orders, but abused her position to take revenge on political enemies and advance her vast power. Together with Mao's, her multi-million death toll has been compared to that of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot.