The death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in November 2011 sparked the biggest shake-up to hit the Communist Party in decades and exposed high-level political divisions.
英国人尼尔伍德的死亡掀起了一场中国高层的大地震，也折射出中国高层的政治分裂。
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这个人据说是北京开来律师事务所的主任，据说是北京大学法学毕业生，据说写过叫《胜诉在美国》、《我 ...
The second wife of Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai was a well-known lawyer whose father was a prominent revolutionary.
Gu Kailai studied at Peking University and then opened the Kailai law firm in Beijing. Fluent in English, she wrote a book about her legal battles called Winning a Lawsuit in the US.
She and her husband were once one of China's most powerful couples - until an announcement in April 2012 that she was being investigated for the murder of Neil Heywood.
Gu Kailai was put on trial on 9 August 2012 for the murder - a crime she committed, according to state media, because of a conflict over economic interests.
A court official said she did not contest the charges, with state media saying she blamed her actions on a "mental breakdown".
She reportedly said she would "accept and calmly face any sentence" for poisoning the British businessman with cyanide.
On 20 August 2012, she was convicted of Mr Heywood's murder and given a suspended death sentence.
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The second wife of Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai was a well-known lawyer whose father was a prominent revolu ...
Bo Xilai was once a top politician tipped for the highest office.
Son of a famous communist hero, he ran the coastal city of Dalian and then became commerce minister before being named Communist Party chief of Chongqing.
He was known for launching two high-profile campaigns in Chongqing - one to promote China's communist past and the other to crack down on organised crime.
At home in front of the cameras, he was seen as both populist and charismatic. Many believed he was in the running for promotion in China's 10-yearly leadership transition in 2012.
But Mr Bo was removed as Chongqing party chief on 15 March of that year and suspended from the Communist Party's hugely powerful 25-member politburo and Central Committee. He has not been seen in public since.
On 25 July 2013, state media reported that Mr Bo had been charged with bribery, corruption and abuse of power.
He is set to be tried on 22 August 2013 at the Intermediate People's Court in Jinan.
Bo Guagua, 25, is the son of Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai.
He studied at one of Britain's most expensive private schools, Harrow, before going on to Oxford University and then Harvard.
Bo Guagua has been described as one of China's younger "princelings" - the descendants of revolutionary leaders who are often criticised for the privileges they enjoy.
Photographs that appear to show him enjoying himself at parties have whizzed around internet sites, as has criticism of his perceived decadent lifestyle.
Chinese state media have also linked him to Neil Heywood, saying both he and his mother "were on good terms with Heywood. However, they had conflict over economic interests".
Bo Guagua was in the US studying at Harvard when scandal engulfed his family. He has since remained there and is to start a law degree at Columbia University in New York.
He has issued statements defending his parents, most recently on 20 August 2013.
"It has been 18 months since I have been denied contact with either my father or my mother. I can only surmise the conditions of their clandestine detention and the adversity they each endure in solitude," he said in a statement to the New York Times.
"I hope that in my father's upcoming trial, he is granted the opportunity to answer his critics and defend himself without constraints of any kind."
BBC这点不地道，介绍这些人的时候，英国人尼尔伍德是第一个介绍的，薄谷开来第二个介绍，薄熙来第三个介绍。按照人物的重要性，薄熙来应该是第一个，尼尔伍德应该是最后一个啊，毕竟这事不过是个理由，不是主线。
Wen Jiabao was China's premier until March 2013, when his successor Li Keqiang took the reins.
Bo Xilai's dismissal had been interpreted by some as part of a political struggle between supporters of former President Jiang Zemin and supporters of Mr Wen and former President Hu Jintao, who were considered to be more open to reform.
Mr Wen indirectly criticised Bo Xilai at his last National People's Congress news conference in April 2012.
Although he did not name Mr Bo directly, he said that local authorities must "seriously" reflect and learn from the Wang Lijun incident.
He also touched on China's Cultural Revolution, a chaotic 10-year period when normal life was turned on its head.
He warned that China could experience a similar period of instability without political reforms, and that "the mistakes of the Cultural Revolution… have yet to be fully eliminated".
This was seen as criticism of Bo Xilai's approach in Chongqing.
Mr Bo had enjoyed reminding people of the days of the Cultural Revolution by sending volunteers into the countryside and giving rousing speeches about China's communist past - moves that gained him many left-wing supporters.
对于温家宝的介绍内容有看头。