Hsü T'e-li ( 1876-), educator, Chinese Communist party ekier, and one-time teacher of Mao Tse-tung. He served the Communist governments at Juichin and Yenan as an educational administrator. In 1947 he became deputy director of the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist party's Central Committee. Changsha, Hunan, was the birthplace of Hsü T'e-li. From 1885 […]
Hsiang Ching-yü (1895-1 May 1928), the wife of Ts'ai Ho-sen (q.v.) and an early member of the Chinese Communist party, was known for her work in organizing women for the party's cause. She was executed by the Nationalist authorities. Little is known of Hsiang Ching-yü's childhood except that she was born into a well-to-do merchant […]
Wang Jo-fei (1896-8 April 1946), founding member of the European branch of the Chinese Communist party. In the 1920's he organized workers in Shanghai. In 1931 he went to Inner Mongolia, where he was arrested by Nationalist agents. After his release in 1937, he held important staff positions' at Yenan. From 1944 until his death […]
P'eng Shu-chih (1896-), close associate of Ch'en Tu-hsiu who left the Chinese Communist party with Ch'en and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in China. Born in Hunan, P'eng Shu-chih came from a peasant family which was relatively well-to-do by Chinese rural standards. After receiving his early education in Hunan, he went to Shanghai […]
Li Wei-han $ It ^ Alt. Lo Mai H ig Li Wei-han (1897-), Chinese Communist administrator who became head of the party's united front work department in 1944 and thus was responsible for the political mobilization of non-Communist groups. From 1949 to 1954 he also headed the Commission on Nationalities Affairs, which was responsible for […]
Li Shih-tseng 李石曾 Orig. Li Yü-ying 李煜瀛 Li Shih-tseng (1881-), leader of the work-study movement in France who became known as one of the "four elder statesmen of the Kuomintang." Although his native place was Kaoyang, Chihli (Hopei), Li Shih-tseng was born in Peking. He and his elder brother, Li Kun-ying, were the sons of […]
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 […]
Mao Tse-tung 毛澤東 T. Jun-chih 潤之 Mao Tse-tung (26 December 1893-), leader of the Chinese Communist party and founder of the People's Republic of China. Shaoshan, Hsiangt'an hsien, Hunan, was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. This agriculturally productive and culturally advanced section of Hunan produced two of the outstanding scholargenerals of the late Ch'ing period, […]
