Yeh Chien-ying (1898- ), Chinese Communist general who served as chief of staff of the Communist military forces during and after the Sino-Japanese war. During the American mediation effort in 1946, he was chief Communist delegate at the Executive Headquarters in Peiping. From late 1949 until mid- 1954 he was based at Canton, and he […]

Ho Hsiang-ning (1880-), the wife of Liao Chung-k'ai (q.v.), was the first woman to join the T'ung-meng-hui (1905). A member of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee (1926-31), she left the party and helped to found the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. She served the Central People's Government as chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission (1949-59). Although […]