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Liu Shaoqi (pronounced [ljǒʊ ʂâʊtɕʰǐ]; 24 November 1898 – 12 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician.He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1954 to 1959, first-ranking vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1956 to 1966, and the chairman of the People's Republic of China, the head of state from 1959 to 1968.
Liu Shaoqi (born November 24, 1898, Ningxiang, Hunan province, China—died November 12, 1969, Kaifeng, Henan province) was the chairman of the People’s Republic of China (1959–68) and chief theoretician for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who was considered the heir apparent to Mao Zedong until he was purged in the late 1960s.
Nov 12, 2013 · 1969: Liu Shaoqi dies under torture. At 6:45 a.m. on this date in 1969, the Chinese Marxist statesman and intellectual Liu Shaoqi passed away secretly in a room of the Kaifeng Municipal Revolutionary Committee building. He had not been executed in the literal sense. But his death was the mere bodily consequence of an Orwell ian civic ...
Liu Shaoqi was a main ideologue of the Chinese Communist Party, and his book, How to Be a Good Communist, published in 1939, was made required reading for every Chinese. . Originally an orthodox Soviet-style Communist, favoring state planning and the development of heavy industry, he modified his stance after witnessing the disastrous consequences of Mao’s attempt to communalize agriculture ...
Liu Shaoqi was a prominent Chinese politician and the 2nd President of the People’s Republic of China. He died in 1969 due to complications from diabetes after being persecuted and denounced by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution.
For the full article, see Liu Shaoqi . Liu Shaoqi , or Liu Shao-ch’i, (born Nov. 24, 1898, Ningxiang district, Hunan province, China—died Nov. 12, 1969, Kaifeng, Henan province), Chairman of the People’s Republic of China (1959–68) and chief theoretician of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). An activist communist background from the ...
Liu Shaoqi - Cultural Revolution, Maoism, Purge: The causes of Liu’s fall (and events leading to Lin Biao’s death) are not clear. For several years the names of Liu, Deng, and Lin were linked, and the three were condemned in the party press as “capitalist roaders” intent on defeating the revolution. After Mao’s death, on Sept. 9, 1976, however, his widow, Jiang Qing, and her so ...
