Liu Renjing

Liu Renjing, before 1949.

Liu Renjing ( Chinese  刘仁静 , Pinyin Liú Rénjìng , W.-G. Liu Jen-Ching ; born March 4, 1902 in Yingcheng , Chinese Empire , † August 5, 1987 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese politician.

Life

Liu joined a Marxist group led by Li Dazhao as a student at Beijing University . In July 1921 he was a delegate at the founding party convention of the CPC . In 1922 he took part in the 4th Congress of the Comintern . From 1923 to 1925 he was secretary of the Communist Youth Association. In 1926 he went to the Soviet Union for three years, where he studied at the Lenin Academy and campaigned for the Left Opposition .

On the return trip to China he met Alfred Rosmer in Paris in 1929 , who made it possible for him to meet Leon Trotsky in Turkey. His theses on the political situation in China and the tasks of the Bolshevik-Leninists go back to discussions with Liu. From the meeting with Trotsky, Liu later derived a claim to leadership that led to a falling out with China's Trotskyists . After their unification conference in May 1931, Liu's influence decreased.

In 1934 he helped Harold Isaacs get the materials for his book The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution . The Kuomintang held him prisoner from early 1935 to 1937 . In prison he made statements about Sunyatsenism , which his comrades understood as surrender. In November 1936 they expelled him from the Trotskyist organization. Until the spring of 1938 he tried to justify his behavior to Trotsky. But then he finally broke with the Chinese Trotskyists and worked as an anti-communist propagandist.

After the Chinese revolution in 1949 he came to terms with the new conditions. He exercised self-criticism and then taught at a Beijing university. During the Cultural Revolution , Liu was arrested and imprisoned for over ten years. In the early 1980s he published several articles in China. In 1987 he died after a traffic accident.

The German-language collection of Trotsky's writings on China, published in 1990, also includes letters to Liu.

literature

• Leon Trotsky: Writings on China . Volume 2 (1928-1940). ISBN 3-89136-390-7
• Pierre Broué : Chen Duxiu and the Fourth International, 1937–1942

Web links

• SHAN e. V. Chinese Trotskyists in Europe: Liu Renjing, Wang Fanxi and Zheng Chaolin
• Niel Sih (Liu's pseudonym) in the Marxists Internet Archive (English)

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