Yeh T'ing 葉挺 Orig. Yeh Hsi-p'ing 葉西平 T. Hsi-i 希夷 Yeh T'ing (1897-8 April 1946), Communist military commander who led the Independent Regiment attached to the Fourth Army on the Northern Expedition in 1926 and, with Ho Lung (q.v.), directed the Nanchang uprising of 1 August 1927. He commanded the New Fourth Army from 1938 […]

Wang Hsien-ch'ien (6 August 1842-8 January 1918), scholar, educator, and government official. He was best known for his monumental compilations, including the Han-shu pu-chu [supplementary notes to the Han-shu] and the Hou-Han-shu pu-chu. The third son in an impoverished gentry family, Wang Hsien-ch'ien was born in Changsha, Hunan. He became a sheng-yüan in 1857 and […]

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. […]

Ch'en Yi 陳毅 Ch'en Yi (1901—), one of the outstanding military commanders in China in the 1930's and 1940's, joined the Fourth Red Army in 1928 and was an early supporter of Mao Tse-tung. He became acting commander (1941) and then commander (1946) of the New Fourth Army. After 1949 he was mayor of Shanghai […]