Lin Piao (1907-), Chinese Communist military leader who became a marshal of the People's Republic of China in 1955, minister of defense in 1959, and the second-ranking member of the party in 1966. A native of Huangkang hsien, Hupeh, Lin Piao was the son of a small landholder (listed in Chinese Communist biographies of Lin […]
Li Wei-han $ It ^ Alt. Lo Mai H ig Li Wei-han (1897-), Chinese Communist administrator who became head of the party's united front work department in 1944 and thus was responsible for the political mobilization of non-Communist groups. From 1949 to 1954 he also headed the Commission on Nationalities Affairs, which was responsible for […]
Li Li-san (c.1900-), leading Chinese Communist labor organizer who became de facto head of the party in 1928. After being removed from office in 1930 and censured by the Comintern, he spent 15 years in exile in the Soviet Union. He returned to China in 1946, having been restored to membership in the Central Committee, […]
Li Ta-chao 李大釗 T. Shou-ch'ang 守常 Li Ta-chao (1889-28 April 1927), founding member of the Chinese Communist party who, as librarian and professor at Peking University, strongly influenced the youth of China at the time of the May Fourth Movement. He was the principal director of Communist organizational and propaganda activities in north China until […]
Huang K'o-ch'eng (1902-), Communist military ofl^cer who served under P'eng Te-huai in the early 1930's and the early 1950's. He held important posts in the People's Republic of China and in 1958 became chief of staff" of the People's Liberation Army. He was dismissed from his party and government offices in 1959 on the grounds […]
Ho Lung 賀龍 T. Yun-ch'ing 雲卿 Ho Lung (11 March 1896-), Hunanese military leader who, with Yeh T'ing (q.v.) staged the Nanchang uprising of 1 August 1927. He helped build the Chinese Communist military establishment in the 1930's and 1940's. After 1949 he served the Central People's Government in such posts as commander of the […]
Ho Meng-hsiung Ho Meng-hsiung (1903-7 February 1931), Chinese Communist labor organizer who opposed Li Li-san's policies. He was expelled from the Chinese Communist party in 1931 after opposing the leadership of Chen Shao-yü. He was executed by the Nationalists. Mao Tse-tung later praised him as a "noble martyr." Little is known of Ho Meng-hsiung's early […]
Ho Ch'i-fang (1910-), poet, journalist, and literary critic, was a prize-winning poet in his youth and an admirer of Western literature. He later became a leading figure in the Chinese Communist cultural hierarchy and a close associate of Chou Yang (q.v.). Little is known about Ho Ch'i-fang's family or early life except that he was […]
Ho Chung-han (5 January 1900-), directed poUtical training in the Nationalist armies (1931-38) and headed the labor bureau of the ministry of social affairs (1942-47). In Taiwan, he served as minister of communications (195054) and chairman of the Kuomintang's Central Planning Committee (1962-). Yochow (Yoyang), Hunan, was the birthplace of Ho Chung-han. After receiving his […]
Hu Feng (1903-), Marxist literary critic, essayist, and poet. Because of his independent approach to Marxism and his affirmation that the artist is entitled to an individual vision of truth, he was singled out for attack in the 1955 campaign for ideological purity, which was led by Chou Yang (q.v.;. Although Hu Feng's father was […]
