Ho Shu-heng (1874- February 1935), an early colleague of Mao Tse-tung and the oldest of the original members of the Hsin-min hsüeh-hui and the Chinese Communist party, was prominent in the party's attempts to use the Hunan school system to spread Marxist- Leninist ideas and in the establishment of the party's branch in Hunan. A […]
Kuo Hua-jo (1907-), Chinese Communist military commentator, political officer, and military historian known for his studies of the Sun-tzu ping-fa [Sun-tzu on the art of war] . Little is known about Kuo Hua-jo's background or early years except that he was a native of Fukien and a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy. He reportedly […]
Ku Meng-yü (1889-), German-trained economist and professor at Peking University who joined the Kuomintang in the 1920's. He was a political associate of Wang Ching-wei until 1933. After 1949 he participated in the socalled third force movement in Hong Kong. He went to the United States in the mid-1950's, where he reentered academic life. The […]
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 Ssu-nien T. Meng-chen Fu Ssu-nien (26 March 1896-20 December 1950), was a leader in the May Fourth Movement who became a historian and an administrator of historical scholarship. He organized the Academia Sinica's institute of history and philology and served as its director for more than 20 years. He acted as director of the […]
Feng Yu-lan (1895-), noted philosopher, best known for his Chung-kuo che-hsueh-shih [history of Chinese philosophy] and for his philosophical system, which combined Neo-Confucianism of the Ch'eng-Chu school with Western realism and logic and with elements of Taoist thought. After 1950, he publicly committed himself to interpreting Chinese philosophy according to the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. A […]
Fang Chih-min (1900-6 July 1935), Communist organizer in Kiangsi. He founded the northeast Kiangsi soviet and headed the Red Army's Anti-Japanese Vanguard Unit. He was captured and executed in 1935 by the Nationalists. Born into a peasant family. Fang Chih-min received his early education in the Chinese classics in his native village of lyang, Kiangsi. […]
Fan Wen-Ian (1891-), the most prominent Marxist historian in Communist China and the director of the institute for the study of modern history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Peking. Little is known of Fan Wen-lan's family background or his childhood except that his native place was Shaohsing, Chekiang, and that he was a […]
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 […]
Teng Hsiao-p'ing (c. 1 902-) , Chinese Communist political officer who rose to become the chief executive officer of the Chinese Communist party, a vice premier in the Central People's Government, and a vice chairman of the National Defense Council. In 1966 he became one of the prime targets of Red Guard criticism in the […]
