Lo I-nung (1901-21 April 1928), leading figure in the Chinese Communist party at Shanghai in the mid-1920's. He was executed by the Nationalists in 1928. Hsiangtan, Hunan, was the birthplace of Lo I-nung. His father was a prosperous merchant and landowner, and Lo received a good education in the Chinese classics from tutors. At the […]

Ch'en Yi 陳儀 Ch'en Yi (1883 - 18 June 1950), governor of Fukien (1934-41) and of Chekiang (1948-49) who, as first Chinese government administrator in Taiwan after 1945, launched a brutal suppression campaign against the Taiwanese when an island-wide revolt against his administration threatened to break out. He was executed as a Communist conspirator for […]