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Epstein, Israel b. April 20, 1915 d. May 26, 2005
Journalist, Author, Chinese Communist Party Leader. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, his father was imprisoned by Russia because of his Anti-Czarist actions. As a child his family immigrated to China. He began his journalism career at age fifteen working for an English language Chinese newspaper. He also worked for United Press International. He lived in Britain and the United States from 1944 to 1951. He published several books including, "Unfinished Revolution in China", "From Opium to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Guofeng, Hua b. February 16, 1921 d. August 20, 2008
Chinese Premier, Leader. A competent administrator and devoted communist , he rose steadily in the bureaucracy of the People's Republic of China. While vice-governor of Hunan province from 1958 to 1967, Hua became noted as an agricultural expert. In 1971, he was named party secretary for Hunan, and in 1973, became a member of the politburo of the Chinese Communist party. Premier Zhou-Enlai made Hua a deputy premier in 1975, at the same time designating him minister of public security, a...[Read More] (Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Ji, Ma [cremation location] b. 1934 d. December 20, 2006
Comedian. Born Ma Shuhuai, he pioneered comic dialogues relating to the Traditional and New China. In 1956, he joined the Central Broadcasting Recitation and Ballad Troupe as a professional Xiangsheng actor. He soon became a popular regular on Chinese Central Television and performed annually on CCTV's Lunar New Year variety show. Pudgy and with big ears, he was best known as a talented mimic and quick with puns. He innovated an English-Chinese Crosstalk art form focusing on the absurdities of...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Ju, Huang b. September, 1938 d. June 2, 2007
Chinese Vice Premier. A leading member of the elite Chinese ruling body of nine. He was born in Zhejiang Province and joined the Communist Party in 1966. He served as the mayor of Shanghai from 1991 to 1994, and as Shanghai's Communist Party boss from 1994 to 1995. In 2002 he was elected to the Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, where he became the nation's sixth most powerful figure in the Chinese Government. He served as deputy prime minister in the Chinese State Council, and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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Ricci, Matteo b. October 6, 1552 d. May 11, 1610
Jesuit Missionary to China. Known to the Chinese as Li Madou (—˜אףג…), Ricci was born in the city of Macerata in the Papal States. Ricci undertook theological and legal studies at a Jesuit institution in Rome. In 1578 he arrived in Goa, India, to begin serving as a Jesuit missionary. In 1582 he was sent to China, arriving in the Portuguese colony of Macao. There he began studying Chinese. In 1583, he moved to Zhaoqing, in Guangdong, at the invitation of the governor Wang Pan, and while there...[Read More] (Bio by: Chris Nelson)
Zhalan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Smedley, Agnes b. February 23, 1892 d. May 6, 1950
Author and writer, daughter of a laborer her father deserted the family in 1903 forcing Agnes to become a domestic to help support the family. At age sixteen she passed the New Mexico teachers exam and began teaching soon after she had to return home to again support her family after her mother passed away. While in college she met Ernest Brundin who would become her husband in 1912. Agnes became involved in politics and in 1926 joined the Socialist Party of America. The following year she...[Read More] (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Strong, Anna Louise
Author / Writer.
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Tieshan, Michael Fu b. 1931 d. April 20, 2007
Religious Leader. He was the leader of the state sponsored Catholic church in China. A native of Qingyuan, Hebei Province, he graduated from a Beijing university in 1954 with a degree in Catholicism. Two years later he was appointed a priest and in 1979 he was ordained as a bishop. In 1993 he was named chairman of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. A Communist Party loyalist, the state recognized leader of the Catholic Church often found himself in conflict with the Vatican over such...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Tse-Tung (Zedong), Mao b. December 26, 1893 d. September 9, 1976
Chinese Leader. Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, was founder of the People's Republic of China. Mao was known for his Communist theories and ideas on revolutionary struggle. Of Hunanese peasant stock, Mao was trained in Chinese classics and later received some education. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) Mass Mobilization, begun and led by Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing, was directed against the party leadership. Liu and others were removed from power in 1968. In 1969 Mao reasserted his party...[Read More]
Mao Zedong Mausoleum, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Xuesen, Qian b. December 11, 1911 d. October 31, 2009
Chinese Rocket Scientist. Born in China's Zhejiang Province, he is regarded as the father of China's space and nuclear programs. A 1934 graduate of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, he arrived in the United States the following year after receiving an educational scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a masters degree in aeronautical engineering while attending MIT, followed by a doctorate degree in aviation and mathematics from the California Institute of...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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Yibo, Bo b. February 17, 1908 d. January 15, 2007
Politician, Revolutionary Figure. Known as one of the "Eight Immortals," he played a key role in the Chinese Civil War and the 1949 Communist Cultural Revolution. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1925 at the age of 17, and fought in the Second World War against Japanese occupation forces in China. Following the Communists rise to power in 1949, he served in a number of party leadership positions including finance minister, vice premier, deputy prime minister, chairman of the State...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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Yue, Gu b. 1937 d. July 2, 2005
Actor. Real name Hu Shixue. Born into a poor family, he enlisted in China's People's Liberation Army in 1949. Noted for his uncanny resemblance to Mao Zedong, he rose to fame after playing the Chinese leader in the 1981 film "Xi'an Incident", which depicted the 1936 kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek by his own generals. He then changed his name to Gu Yue. Yue went on to portray Mao in 84 films between 1981 and 2002. For his roles he won China's Hundred Flowers Award (China's equivalent of the...[Read More] (Bio by: TML)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Yung-lo b. May 2, 1360 d. August 12, 1424
Emperor of China. Born Zhu Di, he was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He ascended the throne on 17 July 1402, and much of his reign was fraught with border disputes. Counter to long-standing Chinese custom, he initiated battles against neighboring nations. During his reign he sent his armies on campaigns against Mongol forces that were remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and also attempted, but ultimately failed, to make Vietnam a fully fledged province of China. He oversaw a period of...[Read More] (Bio by: Chris Nelson)
Ming Tombs, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Ziyang, Zhao b. October 17, 1919 d. January 17, 2005
Politician. Born in Honan Province, China, he rose Communist Party ranks to become premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1989 and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1987 to 1989. He championed a number of political and economic reforms but was ousted for his role in creating conditions which led to the student pro-democracy movement; he was stripped of power for supporting the students during their 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests. Lived under...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Zizhen, He
Second wife of Mao ZeDong, they were married in May of 1928 until 1939. Mao married He after his first wife was killed by KMT forces. She was born in Yunshan. He joined the communist party of China in 1926, this is where she met Mao, he was a classmate of her older brother. He and Mao had six children, three boys and three girls, all but one daughter Li Min died at a young age or were raised by other families. He is technically the third wife of Mao, when Mao was 14 his father arranged a...[Read More] (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

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