- Gang of Four (disambiguation)
The
Gang of Four primarily refers to a group ofCommunist Party of China leaders who were arrested following the death ofMao Zedong .It may also refer to:
Politics and history
* In East Asia, the Gang of Four (or the
Asian Tigers ), referring toSouth Korea ,Taiwan ,Singapore , andHong Kong as newly industrialized countries with shared economic characteristics.
* In British history, the Gang of Four wereShirley Williams , William Rodgers,Roy Jenkins , andDavid Owen , the founders of theSocial Democratic Party (UK) .
* In Australian politics, the Gang of Four were Democratic SenatorsLyn Allison , Andrew Murray,Aden Ridgeway , andJohn Cherry , after they controversially toppled party leader Natasha Stott Despoja.
* In Papua New Guinea, the Gang of Four were Sir Mekere Morauta, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, Sir Anthony Siaguru andCharles Lepani , four prominent civil service chiefs who had significant influence over public policy in the years after independence was granted in 1975.
* In New York City, theGang of Four (Harlem) was anAfrican-American political coalition consisting ofDavid Dinkins ;Charles Rangel ;Basil Paterson ; andPercy Sutton .
*Gang of Four (Seattle) , refers toBernie Whitebear ,Bob Santos ,Roberto Maestas , andLarry Gossett , minority rights activists and later administrators who founded Seattle's Minority Executive Directors's Coalition.
* The "big four"Structuralist theorists:Claude Lévi-Strauss ,Michel Foucault ,Roland Barthes , andJacques Lacan .Entertainment and leisure
*
Gang of Four (band) , an English post-punk rock band formed in the late 1970s.
* Incomic book s, the Gang of Four was a subset of the Oriental Heroes. They consisted of Baldie (the leader of the group), Four-Eyed Ming, One-Eyed Draco, and Heartbreak Kid.
* Gang of Four, the villains in the over-the-top violent Chinese film, "Riki-Oh "
* "Gang of Four (game) ", a card game based on the shifting politics of the Cultural Revolution period in Chinese history.
* "Gang of Four (film) " ("La bande des quatre"), a 1988 French film directed byJacques Rivette
* "Gang of Four (character structure) ", a principal-character breakout pattern sometimes seen in (or applied to) comedies or dramas (e.g.,Seinfeld ).
* "Gang of Four (book) ", a book byLiz Byrski Technology
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Gang of Four (software) ("GoF"), refers toErich Gamma ,Richard Helm ,Ralph Johnson , andJohn Vlissides , the authors of the popular book "Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software"; the term also sometimes refers to the book itself
* One of theLocal Management Interface (LMI) standards for Wide Area Networking, developed and adopted byCisco Systems ,StrataCom , DEC andNortel Networks
*Group of Four (Australia) , the peering arrangement in Australia between communication companiesTelstra ,Optus , MCI andAAPT .
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