Shu Tong (November 25, 1905 – May 27, 1998) was a

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politician. He was born in Dongxiang County, Jiangxi Province (part of

Fuzhou, Jiangxi Fuzhou is a prefecture-level city in the northeastern part of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. Fuzhou is located to the south of the provincial capital Nanchang, bordered in the east by Fujian Province. Its total area is . The popu ...

Province). He joined the

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in 1926. He was the

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. In 1944 he was tasked to lead the Rectification Campaign excesses in Shandong.Gao Hua, ''How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945'', Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. 2018 in Shandong. He died in

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. Shu Tong was also reputed for his

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1905 births 1998 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangxi Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangxi Politicians from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Political office-holders in Shandong Victims of the Cultural Revolution 20th-century Chinese calligraphers Artists from Jiangxi Burials at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery {{China-politician-stub