Teng Yen-ta (1895-29 November 1931), director of the general political department of the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition. Beginning in 1927 he opposed Chiang Kai-shek's leadership, and in 1930 he organized the Provisional Action Committee of the Kuomintang, known as the Third Party. He was executed by the Nationalists as a traitor in […]

Ch'en Po-ta 陳伯達 Ch'en Po-ta (1905-) was known as one of the Chinese Communist party's leading spokesmen on international Communist affairs and the interpreter of the political thought of Mao Tse-tung in such works as Mao Tse-tung on the Chinese Revolution. He drafted many of the editorials in the Jen-min jih-pao [people's daily] and edited […]

Ch'en Li-fu 陳立夫 Ch'en Li-fu (1900-) directed the investigation division of the Kuomintang for about a decade after 1928. He served as secretary general of the Kuomintang central headquarters (1929-31), head of the organization department (1932-36; 1938-39; 1944-48), and minister of education (1938-44). He and his brother, Ch'en Kuo-fu, were known as the leaders of […]