Qiao Shi (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Qiao Shi is a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was born as Jiang Zhitong, to parents of Dinghai, Zhejiang province ancestry. He is said to be distantly related to Chiang Kai-shek's family and this was the cause for the persecution he suffered during the Cultural Revolution. A recognised international studies expert within the Communist Party, Qiao Shi was at one time ranked third in the Communist Party leadership. Despite Western speculation in the 1990s, Qiao Shi never rose to paramount power and retired in 1998.