Chinese Former Leader Zhao Ziyang

This may be the best remembered photo of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳).

Here, Zhao was seen holding a loud-speaker during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Many remember him as a sympathizer of the student demonstrations and his political downfall was said to be linked to his sympathy for the students.

But there is another side of Zhao which is less readily remembered.

According to John Gittings, Zhao's family's business ventures topped the "original lists posted by students in their denunciations of corruption in high places."

Zhao's second son Zhao Erjun had also come under attack because of the close links developing between Hainan and Japan - believed to have been encouraged by Zhao senior - and this had reportedly "touched a familiar patriotic nerve."

In the late 80s, the younger Zhao had reportedly sat on the boards of several Hainan (海南) based state trading companies, a trend which was popular then and perhaps even now.