Hsieh Chueh-tsai (1881-), Chinese Communist leader, held important party offices in the 1930's and 1940's. He served the Central People's Government as minister of interior (1949-59) and was president of the Supreme People's Court (1959-64). Born into the family of a landholder in the Ninghsiang district of Hunan province, Hsieh Chueh-tsai received his early education […]

K'o Ch'ing-shih (1902-9 April 1965), Chinese Communist administrator who became the most important official at Shanghai in 1955, serving as head of the party's Shanghai bureau and chairman of the Shanghai municipal government. A native of Wuhu, Anhwei, K'o Ch'ing-shih was born into a landowning family at Huangshan. After being graduated from the South Anhwei […]

Ts'ai Ho-sen (c.1890-1931), close friend and political associate of Mao Tse-tung. He helped organize the French branch of the Chinese Communist party, after which he returned to China to become a prominent party propagandist and the first editor of the Hsiang-tao choupao [guide weekly]. He was executed by the Nationalists in 1931. Hsianghsiang hsien, Hunan, […]