Chen Bilan
Chen Bilan | |||
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| Born | 1902 Huangpo, Hubei | ||
| Died | 1987 | ||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||
| Citizenship | China | ||
| Spouse(s) | Peng Shuzhi | ||
Chen Bilan (also spelled Ch'en Pi-Lan; was a Chinese communist. Chen was one of the founders of the Chinese Trotskyist movement and was exiled in 1948. For the rest of her life, she was a leader of the exiled Chinese Trotskyists and a member of the Fourth International.[1]
Biography
Chen was born in Huangpu, Hubei province in 1902 to a wealthy family. To escape from a forced marriage, she fled to Shanghai. In 1923 she became a communist and joined the Chinese Communist Party. She lived in Shanghai with Cai Hesen and Xiang Jingyu. In 1924, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party sent Chen, Li Dazhao, and Zhang Tailei to Moscow. She was sent to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. While studying there, she was able to meet with many other members of the Chinese Communist Party and hear speeches from the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) and the Comintern. In the spring of 1925, 13 labor demonstrators in Shanghai were killed by police, leading to May Thirtieth Movement of strikes and protests throughout China, and Chen travelled back to China. Back in Shanghai she became an editor under the Communist Party’s propaganda department, which was headed by Peng Shuzhi. During this time, Peng and Chen began living together. Peng and Chen became major opponents of the party’s continued entryism in the Kuomintang.[2]
Selected bibliography
- The New Developments in the Chinese Situation, 1969[3]
- The Real Lesson of China on Guerrilla Warfare, 1973[4]
References
- ↑ "Chen Bilan (Ch'en Pi-Lan) Internet Archive". Marxist Internet Archive. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ↑ Benton, Gregor (2017). Prophets unarmed : Chinese Trotskyists in revolution, war, jail, and the return from limbo. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. ISBN 9781608465545.
- ↑ "The New Developments in the Chinese Situation". www.marxists.org.
- ↑ "The Real Lesson of China on Guerrilla Warfare". www.marxists.org.
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