Chou Pao-chung (1902-22 February 1964), Communist general, was best known as a guerrilla leader in Manchuria from 1932 to 1945. Born in Tali, Yunnan, Chou Pao-chung belonged to the ethnic minority in Yunnan known as the Pai or Min-chia. The youngest son of a shoemaker father and a peasant mother, he completed primary school, but […]

Nieh Jung-chen (1899-), marshal of the People's Republic of China. After serving as commander of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei military district during the Sino-Japanese war, he became acting chief of staff (1950) and vice chairman (1954) of the People's Revolutionary Military Council. He was made chairman of the Scientific Planning Commission in 1957 and director of the […]

Kuan Hsiang-ying (1902-July 1946), Chinese Communist who became general secretary of the Communist Youth League in 1928. A close associate of Ho Lung, he served as Ho's political commissar at the Hunan-Hupeh soviet base (1932-33) and in the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army (1937-40). Although in poor health after 1941, Kuan headed the […]