Lu Tso-fu (1894-8 February 1952), entrepreneur who founded such enterprises as the Ming-sung Industrial Company, a shipping firm. From 1938 to 1943 he served under Chang Kia-ngau as vice minister of communications in the National Government. He fled to Hong Kong in 1949, but returned to Chungking in response to Chinese Communist promises of financial […]

Lin Piao (1907-), Chinese Communist military leader who became a marshal of the People's Republic of China in 1955, minister of defense in 1959, and the second-ranking member of the party in 1966. A native of Huangkang hsien, Hupeh, Lin Piao was the son of a small landholder (listed in Chinese Communist biographies of Lin […]

Kuan Hsiang-ying (1902-July 1946), Chinese Communist who became general secretary of the Communist Youth League in 1928. A close associate of Ho Lung, he served as Ho's political commissar at the Hunan-Hupeh soviet base (1932-33) and in the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army (1937-40). Although in poor health after 1941, Kuan headed the […]

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 […]

Ting Ling (c.1902-), novelist and short story writer who gained fame during the 1920's. She was known for her vivid descriptions of rebellious youth. Her later career centered on the Chinese Communist party, which she joined in 1933. She was an early critic of Mao Tse-tung's decrees on art, but received a Stalin prize for […]