Roxane Witke
About
Roxane Heater Witke is an American author and a historian of China. She is best known for her biography Comrade Chiang Ch’ing (1977), based on a week-long, sixty-hour interview with Jiang Qing in the summer of 1972. The interview was believed to have inspired The Red Empress (红都女皇), a purportedly risqué biography of Jiang published in Hong Kong in 1973 that threatened her political standing. Following the fall of the Gang of Four, Witke's interview was cited among the Chinese Communist Party’s charges against Jiang for leaking state secrets in pursuit of fame.
