Liu Bojian

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Liu Bojian

Liu Bojian ( Chinese  刘伯坚 , Pinyin Liú Bójiān , W.-G. Liu Po-Chien ; * 1895 , † 1935 ) was a Chinese revolutionary .

Liu Bojian was in Pingchang (province of Sichuan born). From 1919 he studied in the teacher training institute of the provincial capital Chengdu . In the early 1920s he traveled to Europe, where he came into contact with communism and subsequently joined a communist youth organization and later the Chinese Communist Party . From 1923 he studied at the Communist University for the Workers of the East in Moscow , from where he returned to China in 1926. In China, where the Chinese civil war was raging, he first joined the troops of Feng Yuxiang , when he no longer tolerated the communists in his army, he went to Shanghai , where he worked underground.

In 1928 he went again to the Soviet Union , where he studied at a Moscow military academy . In December 1930 he returned to China, where he became involved in the Chinese Soviet Republic . After the establishment of the Chinese Red Army, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army , he held high posts until he was injured in combat in March 1935 and later succumbed to these injuries.