Yün Tai-ying (1895-April 1931), Marxist intellectual and leader of the Young China Association, the Socialist Youth League, and the Hupeh branch of the Chinese Communist party. A noted propagandist, he edited the Hsin Shu Pao [new Szechwan daily], the Chung-kuo ch'ing-nien [China youth], and the Hung-ch'i-pao [red flag]. Yün was executed at Nanking in 1931. […]

Li Huang (14 January 1895-), scholar who joined with Tseng Ch'i (q.v.) in founding the China Youth party. It became part of the socalled third force movement, which endeavored to avert the possibility of civil war between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist party. The son of a prosperous Szechwanese merchant, Li Huang was born […]

Teng Chung-hsia ( 1897-1 933) , one ofthe earliest Communists in China and a leader of the effort to create a unified national labor movement. He is chiefly remembered as the author of the Chvcng-kuo chih-kung yün-tung chien-shih [short history of the Chinese labor movement]. He was executed by the Nationalist authorities. Born into 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, […]