Ulanhu

Ulanhu 1955

Mongolian name
Mongolian script :
Transliteration:	ulaɣan kegü
Official transcription of the PRCh:	Ulanhu
Cyrillic script :	Улаанхүү
ISO transliteration :	Ulaanhùù
Transcription:	Ulaanchüü
Chinese name
Traditional :	烏蘭夫 or 云 泽
Simplified :	乌兰夫 or 雲 澤
Pinyin :	Wūlánfū or Yún Zé

Ulanhu (* 1906 ; † December 8, 1988 in Beijing ) was a Mongolian politician of the People's Republic of China .

Ulanhu came from a family of Chinese-speaking Mongolian farmers from the Left Tumed-Banner near Hohhot . He joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1923 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1925 . He studied from 1925 a. a. together with Wang Ruofei , Zhou Enlai , Jiang Jingguo , Deng Xiaoping , Liao Chengzhi and Lin Boqu at the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow . In 1929 he returned to China and continued his political activities in Inner Mongolia . In 1940 Ulanhu came to Yan'an . In 1947, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was established and Ulanhu held numerous high party and government offices until he was deposed at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution . In 1973 Ulanhu was rehabilitated and, among other things, he was the successor of Dong Biwu as Vice President of the People's Republic of China under Li Xiannian from 1983 to 1988 .

In 1992, a memorial for Ulanhu ( Wūlánfū jìniànguǎn乌兰夫 纪念馆) was set up in Hohhot .

Works

• Wūlánfū xuǎnjí《乌兰夫 选集》.
• Wūlánfū yánlùn jí《乌兰夫 言论 集》.
• Wūlánfū huíyìlù《乌兰夫 回忆录》. Zhōnggòng dǎngshǐ zīliào chūbǎnshè 中共 党史 资料 出版社, Beijing 1989.
• Wūlánfū lùn mùqū gōngzuò《乌兰夫 论 牧区 工作》. Nèiměnggǔ rénmín chūbǎnshè 内蒙古 人民出版社, Hohhot 1990.
• Wūlánfū lùn mínzú gōngzuò《乌兰夫 论 民族 工作》. Zhōnggòng dǎngshǐ chūbǎnshè 中共 党史 出版社 Beijing 1997.

literature

• Uradyn Erden Bulag: The Cult of Ulanhu: History, Memory, and the Making of an Ethnic Hero. In: The Mongols at China's Edge . Rowman & Littlefield, Oxford 2002, pp. 207ff.
• Colin Mackerras , Amanda Yorke: Ulanhu. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China . Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 105.
• Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard, Joseph KH Cheng: Ulanfu. In: Biographical Dictionary of Republican China . Columbia University Press, 1970, pp. 349ff.
• Edwin Pak-Wah Leung: Ulanfu. In: Political Leaders of Modern China. A Biographical Dictionary . Greenwood Press, Westport 2002, pp. 157ff.
• Wūlánfū niánpǔ《乌兰夫 年谱》. Zhōnggòng dǎngshǐ zīliào chūbǎnshè 中共 党史 资料 出版社, Beijing 1989.
• Wūlánfū zhuàn《乌兰夫 传》. Nèiměnggǔ rénmín chūbǎnshè 内蒙古 人民出版社, Hohhot 1990.
• Wūlánfū jìniàn wénjí《乌兰夫 纪念 文集》. Nèiměnggǔ rénmín chūbǎnshè 内蒙古 人民出版社, Hohhot 1990.

Web links

• 乌兰夫 Xinhua .
• Улаанхүүгийн гэр музей Монгол соёлын сайт .
• Ulanhu, 82, a Mongol Who Rose To High Posts in Beijing, Is Dead New York Times , December 9, 1988.