Chen Shunyao

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.
Chen Shunyao
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Chen Shunyao (

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Republic of China

Chen was born in September 1917 in Jinan, Shandong, Republic of China, with her ancestral home in Fuzhou, Fujian.[1][2] In September 1936, she entered the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, where she met her future husband Song Ping, a chemistry student and activist in the December 9th Movement against Japanese aggression in China.[1][2]

When the

CCP Central Party School and worked as Zhou Enlai's secretary in 1939.[1][2]

In 1940, the CCP sent Chen as a representative to the Kuomintang government in China's wartime capital Chongqing, and later Nanjing after the end of World War II. When the Chinese Civil War broke out, she was transferred to the CCP-held area in Northeast China, where she worked in education, including a stint as the principal of Harbin Girls' High School.[1][2]

People's Republic of China

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she returned to Tsinghua University in 1953. She worked for the next eight years at the university, successively as deputy dean, assistant president, and deputy party secretary.[1][2] Future CCP general secretary and paramount leader Hu Jintao, then a Tsinghua student, was a protégé of hers and later promoted by her husband Song Ping.[3]

In 1961, she was transferred to

Northwest China and served as vice minister of propaganda of Gansu Province. She returned to Beijing in 1981, and worked in the Research Office of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party until her retirement in 1988.[1][2]

Chen was a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress in 1954 and participated in drafting the first Constitution of the People's Republic of China. She was also a delegate to the 3rd National People's Congress and the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).[1][2][4]

Personal life

Chen's younger brother, Chen Junwu, is a petroleum chemist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[5]

Chen died on 31 July 2019 in Beijing, at the age of 101 from lung cancer. Her funeral was held on August 3, 2019. She was buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing near her parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters.[1][2][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "宋平夫人陈舜瑶去世，曾给周恩来当书记员". Phoenix Television. 3 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Wang Jun 王俊 (3 August 2019). "宋平夫人、清华大学原副书记陈舜瑶去世，享年102岁". The Beijing News. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
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  4. ^ a b "清华大学原党委副书记陈舜瑶同志病逝，享年102岁". The Paper. 3 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  5. ^ Sun Zihao 孙自豪 (20 April 2018). "作家和科学家的故事". Luoyang Daily. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
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