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. […]

Jen Cho-hsuan (4 April 1896-), Chinese Communist youth leader who severed relations with the Chinese Communist party in 1928 to launch a new career as a publisher and writer of philosophical and polemical works. After 1937 he worked to further understanding of and adherence to Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles. After 1950, he taught at […]

Shao Li-tzu (1882-29 December 1967), teacher and journalist who became a veteran leader of the Kuomintang. He served as governor of Shensi in 1933-36 and as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1940-41. After 1949 Shao held a variety of posts in the People's Republic of China. The son of a government official, Shao Li-tzu […]

Miao Pin (1899-1946), Kuomintang official who served in the Japanese-sponsored government at Nanking in the early 1940's. Although he allegedly served as a Nationalist agent during the Second World War, he was executed by the Nationalists in 1946. Wusih, Kiangsu, was the birthplace of Miao Pin. He was the son of Miao Chien-chang, a Taoist […]

Ch'en Tu-hsiu 陳獨秀 Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng 乾生 T. Chung-fu 仲甫 H. Shih-an 實庵 Pseud. Chung(-tzu) 仲（子） Ch'en Tu-hsiu (8 October 1879-27 May 1942), as editor of the Hsin ch'ing-nien [new youth] and dean of the college of letters of Peking University, was a leader of the literary and cultural revolution that culminated in the May Fourth […]

Ch'en Kung-po 陳公博 Ch'en Kung-po (19 October 1892 ? - 3 June 1946), one of the earliest Communists in China, broke with that party in 1922 and became identified with the left wing of the Kuomintang. After 1926 his career was closely associated with that of Wang Ching-wei, as a member of the "reorganization faction" […]

Mao Tse-tung 毛澤東 T. Jun-chih 潤之 Mao Tse-tung (26 December 1893-), leader of the Chinese Communist party and founder of the People's Republic of China. Shaoshan, Hsiangt'an hsien, Hunan, was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. This agriculturally productive and culturally advanced section of Hunan produced two of the outstanding scholargenerals of the late Ch'ing period, […]