Fang Zhichun () (September 11, 1905 – July 31, 1993) was a

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

politician. He was a cousin of

Fang Zhimin Fang Zhimin (, Wade–Giles: Fang Chih Min; August 21, 1899 – August 6, 1935) was a Chinese communist military and political leader. Life Fang was born in 1899. He was born in a poor peasant household in Yixian, Jiangxi Province. To propagate ...

. He was born in

Yiyang County, Jiangxi Yiyang () is a county located in the center of the prefecture-level city of Shangrao, in the northeast of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. W ...

Province. He joined the

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in 1924 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927. In January 1928, along with his cousin and Huang Dao, he organized an uprising in

Hengfeng County Hengfeng County () is a small county under the administration of Shangrao city, Jiangxi province, China. It is located in the centre of Shangrao city, about from Shangrao Xinzhou District which is the locality of the municipality. History Hen ...

, Jiangxi Province. In 1937 he went to

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Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

Province and in 1938 he went to the

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. After returning to China, he was arrested and imprisoned in

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

by local warlord

Sheng Shicai Sheng Shicai ( zh, c=盛世才; 3 December 189513 July 1970) was a Chinese warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944. Sheng's rise to power started with a coup d'état in 1933 when he was appointed the ''duban'' (Military Governor) of Xinjia ...

. In June 1946, he married Zhu Danhua, the widow of

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...

's younger brother

Mao Zemin Mao Zemin (; April 3, 1896 – September 27, 1943), also using Zhou Bin () as his alias, was born in Xiangtan, Hunan province. He was the head of the state bank of the Chinese Soviet Republic in Ruijin and also the Minister of National ...

, and became the stepfather Mao Zedong's nephew

Mao Yuanxin Mao Yuanxin (born 14 February 1941), also known as Li Shi (), is a former Chinese politician. As the nephew of Chairman Mao Zedong, he acted as the liaison between Mao and the Communist Party's Central Committee in Mao's ailing years, when he ...

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