Chairman Hua : Leader of the Chinese Communists

The Chinese press seldom publishes revelations of the private lives of the nation's leaders, but in this case the flurry of newspaper articles and commentaries exposing for the first time the misdeeds of the disgraced palace politicians, who had previously been revered as people of impeccable integrity, provided the mainland populace with interesting gossip and unusual topics of conversation. [...] His vigorous promotion of farming and the attention he gave to his subjects' livelihood were factors responsible for the resuscitation of the social economy.3 In a notable poem Tu Mu, a poet of the Tang dynasty (618-907), refers to the capture of the Prince of Wei's con- cubine and the boy born to her by Liu Pang, and dwells on the way that these events heralded the period of prosperity during the [...] It boasts a number of related ancient monuments and many temples, and its beautiful landscape, notably the hills in the north-west of the county, was praised by the early Cling scholars and poets.23,21 Chiaocheng was an old revolutionary base arca, the headquarters of the eighth sub-district of the Shansi-Suiyuan military district during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-45).22 2. A revealing leaflet Hu [...] From the autumn of 1938 to the autumn of 1947 he was active in Chiaocheng (Chiaotung) county, serving in succession as chairman of ;he Joint anti-Japanese association, head of the committee for the struggle against enemies', head of the propaganda department of the country CCP Committee, secretary of the country CCP Committee and concurrently political commissar of the armed detachment 8 2. Shansi [...] Some members of the CNLPC and the CCP joined the SNSL in Taiyuan in the summer of 1936, while others joined the SNSL and the Shansi new army after the outbreak of the anti- Japanese war.