Zhang Mojun

Chang Mo-chun (4 October 1883-30 January 1965), feminist, educator, and poet, was the first principal of the Shen-chou Girls School, principal of the Kiangsu First Girls Normal School, and was a member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang and of the Legislative and Executive yuans in China and in Taiwan. Born into a […]

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Zhang Tianyi

Chang T'ien-yi (1907-) was known in the 1930's for his short stories of the new realist school. After 1949 he edited the Communist literary magazine Jen-min wen-hsueh [people's literature] and wrote stories and plays for children. The younger brother of Chang Mo-chun (q.v.), Chang T'ien-yi was born at Nanking, the fifteenth and youngest child of […]

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Yun Daiying

Yün Tai-ying (1895-April 1931), Marxist intellectual and leader of the Young China Association, the Socialist Youth League, and the Hupeh branch of the Chinese Communist party. A noted propagandist, he edited the Hsin Shu Pao [new Szechwan daily], the Chung-kuo ch'ing-nien [China youth], and the Hung-ch'i-pao [red flag]. Yün was executed at Nanking in 1931. […]

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Wang Zaoshi

Wang Tsao-shih (1903-), a leader of" the National Salvation Association who gained national prominence as one of the Ch'i-chuntzu [seven gentlemen] arrested by the National Government in November 1936 for advocating formation of a united front with the Chinese Communists against the Japanese. Little is known about Wang Tsao-shih's family background or early years except […]

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Luo Longji

Lo Lung-chi (1896-7 December 1965), Westerneducated political scientist who gained prominence in China as the editor of the I-shih pao and the Peking Ch'en Pao. During the Sino-Japanese war he became prominent in the China Democratic League. After 1949, he served the Central People's Government, becoming minister of timber industry in 1956. As a senior […]

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Fei Xiaotong

Fei Hsiao-t'ung (2 November 1910-), social anthropologist, became known in CKina as a pioneer in field research. He applied Western anthropological theories and methods to Chinese data. Wuchiang, Kiangsu, was the birthplace of Fei Hsiao-t'ung. His family belonged to the local gentry, but was not wealthy. He had two brothers, Fei Ch'ing and Fei Chen-tung. […]

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Chen Da

Ch'en Ta 陳達 Ch'en Ta (1892-), sociologist and demographer, taught at Tsinghua University (1923-51) and published studies of Chinese labor, migration, and population. From 1938 to 1948 he directed the Institute of Census Research, developed a census program, and made demographic investigations of the Kunming area. After 1958, Ch'en came under Communist censure temporarily because […]

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Chen Mingshu

Ch'en Ming-shu 陳銘樞 Ch'en Ming-shu (1890 - 15 May 1965), prominent Kwangtung military man, commanded the Eleventh Army, was civil governor of Kwangtung from 1929 to 1931, and in 1931 took command of the Nineteenth Route Army. He was best known for leading the Fukien revolt in November 1933. In 1949 hejoined the Peking government, […]

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