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 […]

T'ao Hsing-chih (1891-25 July 1946), educational theorist and reformer who based his ideas on those of John Dewey and Wang Yangming. His theories of "life education" were embodied in the mass education and rural education movements of the 1920's and in the work-study and "national crisis education" programs of the 1930's. Born into a family […]

Jao Shu-shih (1901-), Communist official who served as political commissar of the New Fourth Army after October 1942. With the establishment of the Central People's Government in 1949, he received a number of important posts in east China. In 1953 he became a member of the State Planning Committee and director of the Chinese Communist […]

Liu Po-ch'eng (1892-), Chinese Communist general known for his expertise in the techniques of mobile warfare. Commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army (1937-47) and of the Second Field Army (1948-49), he headed the general training department of the People's Liberation Army from 1954 to 1957 and became a marshal of the […]

Ku Meng-yü (1889-), German-trained economist and professor at Peking University who joined the Kuomintang in the 1920's. He was a political associate of Wang Ching-wei until 1933. After 1949 he participated in the socalled third force movement in Hong Kong. He went to the United States in the mid-1950's, where he reentered academic life. The […]