Liu Chih-tan (1903-April 1936), Chinese Communist guerrilla leader who, with Kao Kang (q.v.), carved out the northern Shensi base that became the final destination of the Long March. A native of Shensi, Liu Chih-tan was born into a landowning family in the Paoan district. After completing his primary education in the early 1920's, he enrolled […]

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, […]