Criteria For Writing Comments:
Significance of the person=s life/career
One to two points about career
significance or contributions
One to two examples from
career: Books, plays, films, etc., 1-2 Positions
If more than one marriage, mention
spouse number or if the relationship had some
significance, ex: Xiang Jingyu and Cai Hesen
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Sample Comments:
One of the most significant world
figures in the 20th Century, Mao Zedong
was the preeminent leader of the PRC. Mao was
able to devise strategy and was ideologically
advanced. His major campaigns after 1949 included
the consolidation of agriculture and industry,
the Hundred Flowers and subsequent Anti-Rightist
Campaigns (1956, 1957), the Great Leap Forward
(1958-60) and the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution (1966-76). Toward the end of his life
he generated a "cult of personality"
and had many of his longstanding comrades purged
from the CCP.
Xiang Jingyu,
the first head of the CCP Womens' Bureau, is
often cited as one of the most important early
feminists in the Communist movement. She was a
brilliant student and organizer. Xiang was a
member of the Work-Study Movement and went to
France (1919-22) where she married Cai Hesen. She
helped with strikes and propaganda back in China
after 1922 and was divorced from Cai in 1925. In
1928 she was captured and executed in Hong Kong.
She had two children.
- Wu Han's "Hai Rui Dismissed
From Office" was the starting point target
of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). During WWII
he taught at Lianda, and in 1948 moved to the
Communist areas. He later became a Dean and
Department. head at Qinghua University.
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