biography
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Liu Shaoqi
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also spelled Liu Shao-ch'i
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pronunciation:
[lyoo showchee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1969)
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| biography:
| Chinese political leader, born in Ningxiang, Hunan, SEC China. He studied at Changsa and Shanghai, went to Moscow to study, joined the Chinese Communist Party, and became a party labour organizer in Shanghai. He was elected to the Politburo in 1934, joined Mao Zedong as the chief Party theorist on questions of organization (1939), became secretary-general of the Party (1943), vice-chairman (1949), and chairman of the People's Republic of China in 1958. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–9) he was denounced, and banished to Hunan province. He reportedly died in detention, but was posthumously rehabilitated in 1980. |
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