biography
pronunciation:
[lee shanyan]
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| lived:
| (1905–92)
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| biography:
| Chinese statesman, born in Hubei province, EC China. He worked as a carpenter before serving with the Kuomintang (Nationalist) forces (1926–7). After joining the Communist Party in 1927 he established the Oyuwan Soviet (people's republic) in Hubei, participated in the Long March (1934–6), and was a military commander in the war against Japan and in the civil war. He was inducted into the Politburo and secretariat in 1956 and 1958, but fell out of favour during the 1966–9 Cultural Revolution. He was rehabilitated, as finance minister, by Zhou Enlai in 1973, and later served as state president under Deng Xiaoping (1983–8). |
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