Wang Guangmei

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Wáng Guāngměi in 1949

Wáng Guāngměi ( Chinese  王光美 ; born September 26, 1921 in Beijing ; † October 13, 2006 ibid.) Was the wife of Chinese President Liú Shàoqí and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China .

biography

Her father was an officer in the Republic of China. Wáng Guāngměi studied French , Russian , English and physics at the Fu-Jen Catholic University ( 辅仁 大学 , Fǔrén dàxué ) in Beijing . In 1945 she did her doctorate in physics and began teaching at Furen University.

In 1946 Wáng Guāngměi started working for the Chinese Communist Party . Shortly afterwards she went to the headquarters of the Communist Party in Yán'ān and worked after World War II a . a. as interpreter for George C. Marshall in the negotiations between Máo Zédōng and Chiang Kai-shek .

In Yán'ān she met Liú Shàoqí know and married him in August 1948. At the same time she became a member of the Communist Party and accompanied Liú on state visits to Afghanistan , Burma , Pakistan and Indonesia in the early 1960s .

In 1966 Wáng Guāngměi was part of a group at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, which removed the leadership of this institution, but in late 1966 / early 1967 she was humiliated, insulted, insulted and accused of crimes in public interrogation in front of hundreds of thousands of Red Guards in Beijing , forced to change publicly in front of the crowd and to put on a “shiny silk dress” and high-heeled shoes despite the cold. The description of this event makes up a whole chapter in the book of Mao's Little General . In several interrogations and trials, a flyer from Tsinghua University from the spring of 1967 mentions three trials, she was tortured and accused of being a counterrevolutionary and a spy for the United States , and was finally imprisoned. Liú Shàoqí, who died in captivity as a result of insufficient medical care, had a similar fate. In September 1978, Hong Kong newspapers reported that Wáng Guāngměi was still alive. She was released from prison on December 12, 1978 and acquitted of her "crimes" in March 1979, shortly after Mao's widow Jiāng Qīng was tried with the other members of the Gang of Four .

After her release, she headed the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Foreign Office, became a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and devoted herself to social issues.

Wáng Guāngměi had four children. Her eldest son, Liú Yuán, was political commissar at the Beijing Military Academy; her daughter Liú Píngpíng studied in Boston and Harvard and is president of the consulting firm Asia Link Group.

Wáng Guāngměi died on October 13, 2006 in Beijing and was buried on October 21, 2006 at the Bābǎoshān ( 八宝山 ) Heroes' Cemetery.

literature

  • Ō Kōbi 王光美, Ryū Gen 劉 源: Kesarata kokkashuseki Ryū Shōki消 さ れ た 国家 主席 劉少奇. Nihon hōsō shuppan kyōkai (日本 放送 出版 協会), 2002.
  • Lowell Dittmer: Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. ME Sharpe 1998, ISBN 1-56324-951-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Ling, Miriam London, Li Ta-ling: Mao's Little General. The story of the Red Guard Ken Ling . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-01024-X , chapter Wang Kung-mei is caught in the net , pp. 258-280
  2. ↑ Ken Ling, Miriam London, Li Ta-ling: Mao's Little General. The story of the Red Guard Ken Ling . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-01024-X , footnote on p. 262
personal data
SURNAME Wang Guangmei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wáng Guāngměi; 王光美 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician and wife of Chinese President Liu Shaoqi
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2006
Place of death Beijing