K'o Ch'ing-shih (1902-9 April 1965), Chinese Communist administrator who became the most important official at Shanghai in 1955, serving as head of the party's Shanghai bureau and chairman of the Shanghai municipal government. A native of Wuhu, Anhwei, K'o Ch'ing-shih was born into a landowning family at Huangshan. After being graduated from the South Anhwei […]

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 […]

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 […]