ABSTRACT
According to a remark by Ch'en Po-ta on January 24, the "seizure of power"should normally take three months when "revolutionary rebels" go about the "great alliance" correctly. Ch'en Po-ta also pointed out that no difficulties arose where the workers were given a proper share in events. This was the case in Shanghai, an industrial city of long standing. Some groups, which are hard to identify, tried first of all to create a "people's commune of Peking" which the red guards of the schools and institutes chose to ignore. On April 20, the new Peking Revolutionary Committee was proclaimed with due solemnity. Its chairman was Hsieh Fu-chih; it had four vice-chairmen, among whom were Ch'i Pen-yu and Wu Teh, both thought to have shared in the semi-disgrace suffered by Li Hsueh-feng, and ninety-seven members, including twenty-four workers, thirteen peasants, seventeen members from the army, thirteen militia cadres, and six members of the university.
