Jiang Zemin, the man who guided China's economic rise, has died.

Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of tremendous development, died Wednesday. He was 96.

Jiang, who was president for a decade until 2003 and headed the ruling Communist Party for 13 years until 2002, died of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai, according to official media. The party dubbed....