Zheng Chaolin
Zheng Chaolin ( Chinese 郑超麟 , Pinyin Zhèng Chāolín ; * 1901 in Zhangping , Empire of China , † August 1, 1998 in Shanghai , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese Trotskyist opposition activist.
Life
Zheng Chaolin studied in France from 1919. In Paris he founded a Chinese Marxist youth group with Zhou Enlai , Zhao Shiyan and others. In 1923 he was sent to Russia, in the following years he worked in China for the Communist Party . In 1929 he married his comrade Liu Jingzhen. In 1931 he was elected to the central committee of a newly founded Trotskyist organization. He was soon arrested by the Kuomintang and imprisoned for seven years. Even after the Chinese revolution he remained politically active as a Trotskyist. The victorious Maoists imprisoned him from 1952 to 1979. Even after his release, he continued to be discriminated against as a “counter-revolutionary”.
Works
- Seventy Years of Rebel: Memories of a Chinese Oppositionist , ISP-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-88332-182-6
- An oppositionist for life: memoirs of the Chinese revolutionary Zheng Chaolin , Humanities Press International, 1997, ISBN 978-0391039667
Web links
- Zheng Chaolin in the English and Chinese sections of the Marxists Internet Archive
- SHAN e. V. Chinese Trotskyists in Europe: Liu Renjing , Wang Fanxi and Zheng Chaolin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zheng Chaolin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 郑超麟 (Chinese); Zhèng Chāolín (Pinyin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese Trotskyist opposition activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhangping |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1998 |
| Place of death | Shanghai |