Chen Boda

Chen Boda

Chen Boda (October 1904 to September 20, 1989), male, Han nationality, formerly known as Chen Jianxiang, was born in Huian County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He was once a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong's political secretary. He was one of the principal criminals of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's counter revolutionary group.

He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. In the same year, he went to Moscow Sun Yat sen University to study. After returning to China in 1930, he successively taught in Peking University of China, Yan'an Party School of the CPC Central Committee, and Ma Lie college, and worked in the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Military Commission, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and the Political Research Office of the CPC Central Committee. In 1969, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. In 1970, he was named and criticized by Mao Zedong at the third Lushan meeting, and then he was expelled from the party. In January 1981, he was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment. He was released from prison in October 1988. He died on September 20, 1989 at the age of 85. He is the author of four families in China, Yuan Shikai, the great thief of the country, and Chiang Kai Shek, the public enemy of the people.

Life of the characters

Study life

Chen Boda was born in October 1904 in Lingtou village, Hui'an County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. At the age of 15, Chen Boda was admitted to Xiamen Jimei normal school (now the normal college of Jimei University) founded by the overseas Chinese businessman Chen Jiageng. After two and a half years in Jimei normal school, 17-year-old Chen Boda returned to his hometown of Hui'an and became a primary school teacher. A year later, he went to Xiamen primary school to teach.

As a primary school teacher, Chen Boda admired Guo Moruo, the "new star" in Chinese poetry. He read Guo Moruo's new poetry collection goddess again and again, and wrote to Guo Moruo to talk about his feelings after reading goddess. Guo Moruo wrote back to him, which made him very happy.

In 1924, Chen Boda came to Shanghai with the help of Zhang Jue Jue Jue, an early member of the Communist Party of China and a member of Fujian Province. While working as a reporter for a tabloid, he entered the literature department of Shanghai University. In this university, Chen was influenced by the Communists and initially received the education of Marxist Leninist theory.

In the spring of 1925, Chen Boda returned to Xiamen. In the early spring of this year, Chen Boda, who was still a nobody in the literary world, published his first novel cold sky in the well-known modern review magazine at that time. This "cold sky" is next to the famous red scholar Yu Pingbo's article. At the time of writing this novel, Chen was just 20 years old, and he has never written a novel since.

At that time, it was the great revolution period of Kuomintang communist cooperation. Chen Boda, 21, believed in Sun Yat Sen's three people's principles and was introduced to the Kuomintang.

On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai Shek first raised his butcher's knife to the Communist Party in Shanghai, and a large number of outstanding communists such as Zhao Shiyan and Chen Yannian fell under Chiang Kai Shek's gun. At this time, Chen Boda came to Shanghai from Xiamen. Facing a severe test, Chen Boda proposed to the Communist Party of China to join the Communist Party of China. In his memoirs, Chen Boda wrote about his process of joining the party like this: "I applied to join the party in Shanghai during the massacre of Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang. In the counter revolutionary terror of the Holocaust, in the terror of the destruction of the Communist Party organizations and the voluntary surrender of a large number of traitors in the major newspapers, I volunteered to join the great Communist Party, and I was exempted from the waiting period to join the party. "

After Chen Boda joined the Communist Party of China in late April 1927, it was difficult for him to establish a foothold in Shanghai. At the order of the party organization, he followed a group of Communists, such as Wang Ming, Li Lishan, Luo Yinong and Wang Hebo, to Wuhan by boat. When he arrived in Wuhan, he was assigned to the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee as the chief of the publishing section. At that time, the propaganda minister of the CPC Central Committee was Cai Hesen, who had just returned from the Soviet Union. Soon after, Chen received a notice from the party organization that he was sent to study in the Soviet Union. Chen Boda entered Moscow Sun Yat sen University and was assigned to class two, grade one.

Responsible for publicity

At the end of 1930, Chen Boda, 26, returned home. In the spring of 1931, Chen Boda came to Shanghai and connected with the organizational relationship of the party. On arriving in Shanghai, Chen Boda was surprised to meet not only his classmate Wang Ming of Moscow Sun Yat sen University, but also the president MIFF. Although Wang Ming was the same age as Chen Boda, Wang Ming had already talked to Chen Boda as a "central leader" at that time. Chen Boda stayed in Shanghai for two months, and was sent to Tianjin by Wang Ming to work in the Propaganda Department of the Shunzhi (Hebei) provincial Party committee. His task was to publish a publication, the northern red flag.

On April 8, 1931, Chen Boda arrived in Tianjin by boat from Shanghai. On this day, the organs of the Shunzhi provincial Party committee of the Communist Party of China were greatly damaged by KMT spies. Chen Boda, who was not named Wang Tong, together with Chen Yuandao, director of the Organization Department of the provincial Party committee, Xu Lanzhi, Secretary of the provincial Party committee, Liu Ningyi and Liu Yaxiong (female), fell into the hands of spies. Due to the defection of Xu Lanzhi, Secretary of the provincial Party committee, the spy broke through the whole case. On September 4, 1931, Chen Boda and Chen Yuandao were escorted from Tianjin to Beiping. Chen Boda was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment and was put in the "Beiping military reflection Institute" to serve his sentence. In 1932, Chen Boda was released from prison. At the beginning of 1933, the party organization sent him to Zhangjiakou to work in jihongchang army.

On December 9, 1935, the "12.9" Movement broke out in Beiping. The next day, appointed by the North Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chen Boda went to Beiping to lead the general strike of students in Beiping at that time with Li Baohua and Ke Qingshi, and was responsible for drafting the propaganda outline of the student movement in Beiping.

In the spring of 1936, Liu Shaoqi came to Tianjin as the representative of the Central Committee to serve as the Secretary of the northern Bureau. Liu Shaoqi reorganized the northern Bureau, nominating Peng Zhen as organization minister, Chen Boda as propaganda minister, and Lin Feng as secretary general. Since then, Chen Boda, 32, has gained a certain position in the party as the propaganda minister of the northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

Go to Yan'an

When Beiping was occupied in July 1937, the northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee appointed Lin tie and Chen Boda to form a "three member committee of Beiping" equivalent to the Secretary of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee to preside over the work of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee. In early August of the same year, Chen Boda left Peking for Tianjin. Tianjin was in chaos under the iron feet of the Japanese army. Chen Boda is looking forward to a slightly stable environment, can continue his work, hoping to go to Yan'an. The central North Bureau agreed to Chen Boda's request to go to Yan'an and instructed him to take a boat from Tianjin to Qingdao and then go west.

When Chen Boda arrived in Yan'an, it was just at the beginning of Shanbei public school, which needed teachers. Because Chen Boda once taught in the Department of Chinese culture of Peking University of China, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee arranged for him to work as a teacher in Shanbei public school. But Chen Boda's Minnan dialect is hard to understand. When he lectured, he had to write chalk on the blackboard constantly so that the students could understand. It's not so much a lecture as "writing a lesson.". After teaching in Shanbei public school for a while, Chen Boda was transferred to the Party School of the CPC Central Committee as a teacher.

On May 5, 1938, Marxism Leninism college was established in Yan'an. This is the college where the CPC Central Committee trains theoretical cadres, and its president is Zhang Wentian, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Zhang Wentian is Luo Fu. He is very familiar with Chen Boda. They are classmates of Sun Yat sen University in Moscow. Zhang Wentian immediately transferred Chen Boda to Marxism Leninism College as a teacher. Chen Boda taught basic knowledge of Marxism Leninism, history and philosophy at Marxism Leninism college. Once, Mao Zedong came to a meeting. Zhang Wentian introduced Chen Boda to Mao Zedong in public, but Mao Zedong did not pay attention to Chen Boda at that time.

After all, teaching is not Chen Boda's strong point, because the students reflect that they can't understand him. Such a strange thing often happens: Chen Boda, a Chinese teacher, often takes "translation" to translate his Minnan dialect into Putonghua when he gives a big lesson to Chinese students. As a result, Chen Boda was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and appointed head of the publishing section.

Life turning point

When he first arrived in Yan'an, Chen Boda was not well placed by the CPC Central Committee. By chance, Chen Boda attracted Mao Zedong's attention. It was a theoretical forum attended by Mao Zedong to discuss Sun Yat Sen's thoughts. At the meeting, there was a debate on the class nature of Sun Yat Sen's thought. One view holds that Sun Yat Sen's thought belongs to the petty bourgeoisie, while the other holds that Sun Yat Sen's thought belongs to the national bourgeoisie.

Mao Zedong listened carefully to the arguments between the two sides. Just as the debate became more intense, Chen made a speech. He tried to speak slowly so that everyone could understand him. Chen Boda's brilliant point is to use the method of unity of opposites to elaborate. He said: "I think Sun Yat Sen's thought has two duality: including the duality of petty bourgeois thought and the duality of national bourgeois thought..." At the end of Chen Boda's speech, Mao Zedong stood up and said happily: "Comrade Chen Boda's speech just now is very good, and has properly analyzed the class attribute of Sun Yat Sen's thought..." After the meeting, Mao Zedong left Chen Boda and asked about him.

In the evening of that day, Mao Zedong sent someone to inform Chen Boda to rush to the canteen of the organ cooperative for dinner. Chen Boda hurried to get there to understand that Mao Zedong had given a banquet to an American reporter. Mao Zedong said to Chen Boda, "I'd like to invite you and the American guests by the way today." The treat is very simple. Mao Zedong, translator, American journalist and Chen Boda are all at the same table. At first, Mao Zedong made some polite remarks to the American guests. Later, he turned to Chen Boda and asked about the cultural circles in Peiping. He asked about Zhang Shenfu (one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China, whose wife Liu Qingyang was Zhou Enlai's introducer to join the party and later her husband

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