Yang Shangkun (The Era of Relative Peace)

Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – ?) was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1991, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping. He married Li Bozhao in 1929, one of the few women to participate in the Long March, as did Yang.

Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989
Yang Shangkun backed Premier Li Peng's decision of crushing the student-led protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989. One of Yang's brother was present as part of the 27th Army who was stated to be fanatically loyal to President Yang.