Li Shuoxun (; 1903

Gao County Gao County or Gaoxian () is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Yibin city and has a population of 526,400 in 2019, 171,000 of which live in the urban area. The county seat is located from Yibin city. The county ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

– 1931

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

), alternative names Li tao (), Li Kaizhuo () and Li Shuxun (), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, early leader of Chinese Communist Party and martyr.

Career

Born in Gao County, Sichuan, in 1903, Li joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

in 1924 and turned into the underground after the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

(KMT)'s massacre of communists in 1927. Later in the year, Li Shuoxun, Zhou Shidi and

Nie Rongzhen Nie Rongzhen ( zh , s = 聂荣臻 , p = Niè Róngzhēn , w = Nieh Jung-chen ; December 29, 1899 – May 14, 1992) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He died as the last People's Liberation Army (PLA) marshal. Biography Nie was b ...

led the 25th division of

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; zh, labels=no, t=國民革命軍) served as the military arm of the Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) from 1924 until 1947. From 1928, it functioned as the regular army, de facto ...

to join the Nanchang uprising, which marked the start of the Chinese Civil War. Li went to

to take charge of Qiongya guerilla in 1931, before he was caught and executed by the KMT in the same year. He is now commemorated by CPC as a revolutionary martyr. His orphaned son,

Li Peng Li Peng (; 20 October 1928 – 22 July 2019) was a Chinese politician who served as the 4th premier of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from ...

, was adopted by

Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai ( zh, s=周恩来, p=Zhōu Ēnlái, w=Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 unti ...

, first Premier of the People's Republic of China, and also served as Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1998.

References

Heroes and models of new China: Li Shuoxun

Martyr Li Shuoxun's Memorial Pavilion
1903 births 1931 deaths Chinese communists Communists executed by the Republic of China Executed people from Sichuan Executed writers Family of Li Peng Parents of prime ministers of China {{China-bio-stub