Deng Liqun

Deng Liqun, August 1949.

Deng Liqun ( Chinese  邓力群  /  鄧力群 , Pinyin Dèng Lìqún , W.-G. Teng Li-Ch'un ; born November 27, 1915 in Guidong , Republic of China ; † February 10, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese politician .

Deng became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1936 . He was used after the communists' victory in the civil war in Xinjiang Province in 1949 to enforce Chinese rule against the resistance of the local Uyghurs . Deng got into trouble during the Cultural Revolution but was rehabilitated in the 1970s. From 1982 to 1985 he was the party's head of propaganda.

Deng was known politically as a left hardliner and publicly opposed Deng Xiaoping's pursuit of economic reforms, including accusing Jiang Zemin of potentially destroying the party. Like the then Liberal Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang , he was not allowed to attend the Deng state funeral. In 2001 he publicly attacked plans to bring capitalist entrepreneurs to China.

Liqun was married to Luo Liyun and had a son, Deng Yingtao († March 11, 2012).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 邓力群 同志 逝世. Retrieved February 11, 2015 (Chinese). 
2. ↑ Hardline Communist propagandist Deng Liqun dies. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Petra Kolonko: Deng Liqun died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 12, 2015, p. 5.

Web links

• Historical dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party
• Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China
• How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders
• Chinese article from 2009

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Deng is the family name here, Liqun is the first name.