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, […]
Fu Tso-yi (1895-), a military officer who, as top commander in north China after 1947, negotiated the surrender agreement under which the Chinese Communist forces entered Peiping in 1949. He began his career under Yen Hsi-shan (q.v.) and served as governor of Suiyuan from 1931-47. In 1949 he became minister of water conservancy in the […]
Tu Yü-ming (1903-), Whampoa graduate who was one of Chiang Kai-shek's favorite commanders. In 1945 he helped strengthen Nationalist control of Yunnan by ousting Lung Yun (q.v.). In the civil war with the Chinese Communists he served in Manchuria and at Hsuchow in the decisive Hwai-Hai battle. He was captured by the Chinese Communists in […]
Ting Ling (c.1902-), novelist and short story writer who gained fame during the 1920's. She was known for her vivid descriptions of rebellious youth. Her later career centered on the Chinese Communist party, which she joined in 1933. She was an early critic of Mao Tse-tung's decrees on art, but received a Stalin prize for […]
Teng Tzu-hui (c.1893-), early leader of the Communist movement in Fukien. He served as a political and liaison officer during the Sino-Japanese war and the war with the Nationalists. In 1949-52 he dominated the party's Central-South bureau. He then became director of the Central Committee's rural work department, and he held such posts at Peking […]
Ch'en Yun (1900-) began his political career as a Communist labor organizer in Shanghai. In 1938 he directed the organization department of the Central Committee. From 1940 to 1945 he was chairman of the northwest regional economic-financial committee. From 1946 to 1949 he was chairman of the party's Northeast bureau. After 1949 he was vice […]
Ch'en Keng 陳賡 Ch'en Keng (1903 - 16 March 1961) , Communist military commander, reportedly saved the life of Chiang Kai-shek at Waichow in 1925. He participated in the 1927 Nanchang uprising and in the Fourth Front Army campaigns against the Nationalists. During the Sino-Japanese war he commanded a brigade in the Eighth Route Army. […]
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, […]
