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Wang Jiaxiang
Wang Jiaxiang (; 15 August 1906 – 25 January 1974) was one of the senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in its early stage and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. Wang held a variety of high-level posts in the Party: during the Civil War he was the director of the Red Army's General Office, upon the founding of the People's Republic of China he was the first ambassador to the Soviet Union (and the first ever ambassador of the PRC), and then became the first head of the Party's International Department. Political Biography Wang, a native of Jing County, Anhui, was born into a landlord family and attended an English missionary school in Wuhu. In September 1925 he began attending the affiliated middle school of Shanghai University. One month later he joined the Youth League, and was soon en route to the Soviet Union, studying at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. This institution was established under Sun Yat-Sen's policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the CCP, a ...
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Wang (surname)
Wang () is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the common Chinese surname (''Wáng''). It has a mixture of various origin with uncertain lineage of family history, however it is currently the list of common Chinese surnames, most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most common surnames in Asia, with more than 107 million in Asia. It is the 8th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames.
[Public Security Bureau Statistics: 'Wang' Found China's #1 'Big Family', Includes 92.88m People]." 24 Apr 2007. Accessed 27 Mar 2012.
A separate surname (''Wāng'') is also romanized as Wang. Wang also has less common unrelated origins in the North Germanic languages, Scandinavian and Germanic languages.


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Jingxian Hou'an 2017
Jing County or Jingxian may refer to: *Jing County, Anhui (泾县), China *Jing County, Hebei (景县), China *Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County, formerly Jing County (靖县) *Jīngxiān, a class of ''Xian'' or immortals in Taoist lore. See also * Jin County (other) *Jinxian County Jinxian County () is a county of Jiangxi Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nanchang Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi, China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hint ... * Jinxiang (other) {{geodis ...
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Yang Shangkun
Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Chinese Communist Party, Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.Yang Shangkun (Yang Shang-kun) (1907-1998) in ''China at war: an Encyclopedia'', edited by Xiaobing Li, pp. 512–514, ABC-CLIO, 2012. Born to a prosperous land-owning family, Yang studied politics at Shanghai University and Marxism, Marxist philosophy and revolutionary tactics at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. He went on to hold high office under both Mao Zedong and later Deng Xiaoping; from 1945 to 1965 he was Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party, General Office and from 1945 to 1956 Secretary–General of the Central Military Commission (China), Central Military Commission (CMC). In these positions, Yang oversaw much of the day-to-day running of government and Party affairs, both ...
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Zunyi Conference
The Zunyi Conference () was a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. The result was that Mao left the meeting in position to take over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party. The conference was completely unacknowledged until the 1950s and still no detailed descriptions were available until the fiftieth anniversary in 1985. Background In August 1934, with the Red Army depleted by the prolonged Chinese Civil War, a spy ( Mo Xiong) placed by Zhou Enlai in the KMT army headquarters in Nanchang brought news that Chiang Kai-shek was preparing a major offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic's capital, Ruijin. The Communist leadership decided on a strategic retreat to regroup with other Communist units, and to avoid annihilation. The original plan was for the First Red Army to link ...
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Li Lisan
Li Lisan (; 18 November 1899 – 22 June 1967) was a Chinese politician, member of the Politburo, and later a member of the Central Committee. Early years Li was born in Liling, Hunan province in China in 1899, under the name of Li Rongzhi. His father, a teacher, taught Li Chinese traditional poems and classics. In 1915, he arrived at Changsha for high school and saw an advertisement in a newspaper written by a student from First Normal School of Changsha with the pen name 28 Strokes. Li met and then became friends with the young man, whose real name was Mao Zedong. Later, Li joined the army of a local warlord in Hunan. One of the Division Commanders, Cheng Qian, who was both Li's father's townsman and alumni, sponsored Li to study in Beijing. Beginning career France When Li reached Beijing, he applied to study in France and arrived there in 1920. He worked part-time as an assistant to a boilermaker to earn his tuition. His boss was a member of Communist Party and Li w ...
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British Hong Kong
Hong Kong was under British Empire, British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II from 1941 to 1945. It was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1981, and a British Dependent Territory, dependent territory from 1981 to 1997. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island under the Convention of Chuenpi in 1841 of the Victorian era, and ended with the handover of Hong Kong to the China, People's Republic of China in July 1997. In accordance with Art. III of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, signed in the aftermath of the First Opium War, the island of Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain. It was established as a Crown colony in 1843. In 1860, the British expanded the colony with the addition of the Kowloon Peninsula and was further extended in 1898 when the British obtained Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, a 99-year lease ...
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Chen Yuandao
Chen Yuandao () (1902 – April 10, 1933), also called Yuandao (), was a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. He was born in Anhui Province. He was introduced by Yun Daiying into the Chinese Communist Party. He participated in the May Thirtieth Movement. After returning from his studies at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union, he was tasked with party activities in Jiangsu Province in 1929. In 1930, he went to Henan Province to organize party activities. In 1931, he was imprisoned in Beiping while organizing in Hebei Province, but rescued by fellow communists in 1932. But later on he was betrayed and reimprisoned in Nanjing before being executed by the Kuomintang. He has a son Liu Jiyuan Liu Jiyuan () (died in 992), also known by his regnal name as the Emperor Yingwu of (Northern) Han ((北)漢英武帝), was the last emperor of the Shatuo-led Chinese Northern Han dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He w .... References {{reflist 1902 births 1933 ...
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Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was a political international which existed from 1919 to 1943 and advocated world communism. Emerging from the collapse of the Second International during World War I, the Comintern was founded in March 1919 at a congress in Moscow convened by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (RCP), which aimed to create a new international body committed to revolutionary socialism and the overthrow of capitalism worldwide. Initially, the Comintern operated with the expectation of imminent proletarian revolutions in Europe, particularly Germany, which were seen as crucial for the survival and success of the Russian Revolution. Its early years were characterized by attempts to foment and coordinate revolutionary uprisings and the establishment of disciplined communist parties across the globe, often demanding strict adherence to the " Twenty-one Conditions" for admission ...
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Pavel Mif
Mikhail Alexandrovich Fortus (3 August 1901 – 10 September 1939), known under the pseudonym Pavel Mif, was an academic and specialist in Asian political policy to the government of the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin. He was born in the Kherson Governorate, Kherson area to a family of Jewish descent. He joined the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik party in May 1917 and served as a political commissar in the Russian Civil War, Russian civil war (1918–20). He studied history at Sverdlov Communist University from 1920 to 1921 and worked for the communist party in Ukraine from 1923 until 1925, when he became Academic ranks in Russia, provost of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University under Karl Radek, rising to its rector in 1927. Pavel Mif was a member of the Executive Council of Comintern and its representative for China, in which capacity he attended the 5th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 5th and 6th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1927 and 1928 respectiv ...
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Bo Gu
Qin Bangxian, better known by his alias Bo Gu ( 4 May 1907 – 8 April 1946) was a Chinese senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. Early life and education Qin was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in 1907. In his earlier years, Qin studied at the Suzhou Industrial School where he took an active role in activities against imperialism and the warlords tyrannising China. In 1925 Qin entered Shanghai University, a university that was known for its impact on young revolutionists at the time. The ideas of Marxism and Leninism were taught there by early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) like Qu Qiubai and Deng Zhongxia. Qin showed a great interest in these teachings. Later that year, Qin joined the May 30th Movement which called for protests and boycotts against imperialism. This was a precursor to his involvement in the CCP. In 1926 Qin was sent to the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, Russia where he continued to study both Marxis ...
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Zhang Wentian
Zhang Wentian; 30 August 1900 – 1 July 1976), also known as Luo Fu ( zh, c=洛甫, w=Lo Fu (30 August 1900 – 1 July 1976) was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born in Nanhui District, Nanhui, he attended the Hohai University, Hohai Civil Engineering School in Nanjing and spent a year at the University of California. He later joined the CCP in 1925 and was sent to study at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, from 1926 to 1930. He was a member of the group known as the 28 Bolsheviks, but switched to supporting Mao Zedong during the Long March. He was General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1943, when the post was abolished. He remained a member of the Politburo, but ranked 12th of 13 in the 7th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, 7th Politburo and reduced to Alternate Member in the 8th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, 8th Politburo. He was First Vice Minis ...
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Wang Ming
Wang Ming (; May 23, 1904 – March 27, 1974) was a senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He led the CCP delegation to the Comintern, Communist International (Comintern) from 1931 to 1937. After returning to China, he came into conflict with Mao Zedong. From 1925 to 1929, Wang studied in Moscow at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University, where he was a supporter of Joseph Stalin's during the Soviet Union's leadership struggles. After returning to China, he was briefly purged by Li Lisan's faction before being fully reinstated in late 1930. In January 1931, he was promoted to the Politburo and rose rapidly in importance during a time of high attrition in the CCP's top leadership due to purges, arrests, and flights into hiding. Wang became the CCP's leading representative to the Comintern and left for Moscow in October 1931. In that role, he helped promote the idea of an alliance between the CCP and the Kuomintang (KMT) to resist Japanese im ...
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