Li Weihan
Li Weihan | |||||||
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李维汉 | |||||||
![]() Li in 1946 | |||||||
Vice Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission | |||||||
In office 12 September 1982 – 11 August 1984 | |||||||
Chairman | Deng Xiaoping | ||||||
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |||||||
In office 2 July 1979 – 17 June 1983 | |||||||
Chairman | Deng Xiaoping | ||||||
In office 25 December 1954 – 5 January 1965 | |||||||
Chairperson | Zhou Enlai | ||||||
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |||||||
In office 27 September 1954 – 3 January 1965 | |||||||
Chairman | Liu Shaoqi Zhu De | ||||||
Secretary-General of Government Administration Council | |||||||
In office 19 October 1949 – 18 September 1953 | |||||||
Premier | Zhou Enlai | ||||||
Preceded by | New title | ||||||
Succeeded by | Xu Bing | ||||||
Head of the United Front Work Department | |||||||
In office 26 September 1948 – 25 December 1964 | |||||||
Preceded by | Zhou Enlai | ||||||
Succeeded by | Xu Bing | ||||||
Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||
In office 9 August 1927 – 23 September 1927 | |||||||
Preceded by | Zhang Guotao | ||||||
Succeeded by | Luo Yinong | ||||||
Member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||
In office 9 August 1927 – 19 June 1928 | |||||||
General Secretary | Chen Duxiu | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | Changsha County, Hunan, Qing Empire | 2 June 1896||||||
Died | 11 August 1984 Beijing, China | (aged 88)||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Spouse(s) | Cao Wenyu Jin Weiying Wu Jingzhi | ||||||
Children | 5, including Li Tieying | ||||||
Alma mater | Hunan First Normal University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李维汉 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 李維漢 | ||||||
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Li Weihan (Chinese: 李维汉; 2 June 1896 – 11 August 1984) was a Chinese Communist Party politician. After pursuing his studies in France in 1919–20, he returned to China for the first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921. He became a member of the 6th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 1927 but fell out of favour shortly afterwards in the wake of the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in junction of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. When he sought to bring the uprising to an end, he found himself accused of cowardice. Li was eclipsed until reemerging in the early 1930s as a supporter of Li Lisan, a leading figure in the CCP at the time, and an opponent of the anti-Mao 28 Bolsheviks faction.[1]
Li Weihan was promoted to become the first principal of the Yan'an-based Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, the highest training center for party workers and leaders. Li served as principal from 1933 to 1935 and again from 1937 to 1938.[2] After the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Li was involved in managing China's minorities and nationalities as Chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. He was also a significant player in the CCP's drive to introduce state control of the economy (Soviet-type economic planning), and in the late-1950s Anti-Rightist Campaign, in which his own brother was purged.[1]
Li was the director between 1944 and 1964 of the United Front Department, the predecessor to the present-day United Front Work Department. He was removed from his post in 1964 and was subsequently criticised by Zhou Enlai for "capitulationism in united front work". However, he reemerged after 1978 as a supporter of the reformist Deng Xiaoping – who Li had saved from persecution years before – and as a critic of Mao and autocracy in the CCP, which Li referred to as "feudalism".[1] Deng promoted Li in 1982 to the post of vice chairman of the Central Advisory Commission, which Deng himself chaired. Li died in office in August 1984.[2]
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[edit]- ^ a b c Sullivan, Lawrence R. (2012). Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party. Scarecrow Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-8108-7225-7.
- ^ a b "The United Front in Communist China" (PDF). Central Intelligence Agency. May 1957. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
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