Chu Hsueh-fan (5 October 1 901—), labor leader. Chairman of the Kuomintang-sponsored General Labor Union in 1928, he later headed the Chinese Association of Labor and often represented China at international labor meetings. He started cooperating with the Chinese Communists in early 1948, and in 1949 he became minister of posts and telegraphs at Peking! […]
Chang Wen-t'ien (1898-), known as Lo-fu, a writer and translator, was one of a group of Russian-trained Chinese Communists known as the 28 Bolsheviks. General secretary of the Chinese Communist party in the mid-1 930's, he was ambassador to the Soviet Union 1951-55 and senior vice minister of foreign affairs 1955-59. Nanhui, a suburb of […]
Ch'en Shao-yü Ch'en Shao-yü (1907-), leader of the proteges of Pavel Mif known as the 28 Bolsheviks, was general secretary of the Chinese Communist party (1931-32), Chinese representative to the Comintern (1932-37), and a member of the Comintern's Executive Committee. In 1937 he returned to China. His disagreements with Mao Tse-tung caused Mao to launch […]
Jao Shu-shih (1901-), Communist official who served as political commissar of the New Fourth Army after October 1942. With the establishment of the Central People's Government in 1949, he received a number of important posts in east China. In 1953 he became a member of the State Planning Committee and director of the Chinese Communist […]
P'eng Chen (1899-), Chinese Communist official who held the top administrative and party posts in the Peking municipal government in the 1950's and early 1960's. He was one of the first high-ranking officials to be removed from office in the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Little is known about P'eng Chen's family background or early life […]
Lin Piao (1907-), Chinese Communist military leader who became a marshal of the People's Republic of China in 1955, minister of defense in 1959, and the second-ranking member of the party in 1966. A native of Huangkang hsien, Hupeh, Lin Piao was the son of a small landholder (listed in Chinese Communist biographies of Lin […]
K'ang Sheng (1899-), Chinese Communist leader in security and intelligence work in Shanghai and at Yenan. Chuch'eng, a small city in eastern Shantung, was the birthplace of K'ang Sheng. His father was a moderately wealthy landholder. Little is known about K'ang's childhood or primary education. About 1920 he went to Shanghai to attend the Shanghai […]
Kao Kang (1902-1954?), Chinese Communist guerrilla leader who helped establish the northern Shensi base area. From 1949 to 1953 he was the senior Communist official in the Northeast. He disappeared in 1954, and he and Jao Shu-shih (q.v.) were charged in 1955 with having formed an "anti-party alliance." The son of a landholder in Hengshan, […]
Teng Hsiao-p'ing (c. 1 902-) , Chinese Communist political officer who rose to become the chief executive officer of the Chinese Communist party, a vice premier in the Central People's Government, and a vice chairman of the National Defense Council. In 1966 he became one of the prime targets of Red Guard criticism in the […]
