Wu Xiuquan
Wu Xiuquan | |
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伍修权 | |
 Wu in 1946 | |
| Chinese Ambassador to Yugoslavia | |
| In office 26 February 1955 – 1 September 1958 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Chargé d'affaires |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 March 1908 Qing China |
| Died | 3 November 1997 (aged 89) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Spouse | Xu He |
| Alma mater | Moscow Sun Yat-sen University |
| Wu Xiuquan | |
|---|---|
Hanyu Pinyin | Wǔ Xiūquán |
| Wade–Giles | Wu3 Hsiu1-ch'üan2 |
| IPA | [ù ɕjóʊ.tɕʰwǎn] |
Wu Xiuquan (
Early life and education
Wu was born on 6 March 1908 in
In October 1925, he was sent to the
Wartime career
Wu returned to China in May 1931, when the Communist movement was at its nadir.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Wu was appointed head of the Eighth Route Army's Lanzhou office, which he developed into a hub for receiving and transporting military aid from the Soviet Union for China's war effort.[6] After the surrender of Japan at the end the war, Wu was appointed Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the formerly Japanese-occupied Northeast China. He became Chairman of the Shenyang Military Control Commission after the PLA seized the city in November 1948, and a member of the Northeast People's Government when it was founded in August 1949.[5]
Early People's Republic of China
When the People's Republic of China was founded in October 1949, Wu was appointed head of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Department of the Foreign Ministry and accompanied Mao Zedong on his visit to the Soviet Union in January 1950. In November 1950, Wu attended a United Nations Security Council meeting as the PRC representative. He made a long speech condemning the United States for its "armed aggression" in Taiwan and "armed intervention" in the Korean War, and called for the UN to demand the withdrawal of U.S. forces from both Taiwan and Korea.[5]
In 1951, Wu was promoted to Vice Foreign Minister of the PRC. In March 1953, he visited Moscow again, as a member of the Chinese delegation led by Premier Zhou Enlai, to attend the funeral of Joseph Stalin.[5]
In September 1954, Wu was elected a member of the
Cultural Revolution and aftermath
During the Cultural Revolution, Wu resisted Kang Sheng's attempt to persecute the senior leader Wang Jiaxiang. On 8 April 1967, after he posted a big-character poster condemning the chaos created by the radicals at the International Liaison Department, Kang Sheng and Lin Biao arrested Wu as a foreign spy and imprisoned him for eight years.[6]
In April 1975, Marshal
In October 1979, Wu became the founding chairman of the newly established Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies, which in October 1992 was renamed the
Wu published several memoirs, including My Life's Journey, Reminiscences of Wu Xiuquan, and Eight Years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[5]
On 9 November 1997, Wu died in Beijing at the age of 89.[4]
Family
Wu had four daughters and a son with his first wife. After her death, Wu married Xu He (徐和) in 1948 in Dalian, and she gave birth to another daughter.[8] Xu He was the third of five children of the educator Xu Yibing. Xu Chi, a renowned writer, and Xu Shunshou, a founder of China's aircraft manufacturing industry, were Wu's brothers-in-law.[9]
References
- ^ "历任副部长及部长助理_中华人民共和国外交部".
- ^ "伍修权回忆庐山会议：我也违心地举过手，于心有愧_祖国网".
- ^ "伍修权_遵义红色教育培训中心_遵义红色培训，遵义红色文化培训，遵义党性教育，遵义干部培训，遵义干部学院".
- ^ a b c d e f g h "伍修权". Government of Yangxin County. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4766-0298-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g Zhang Wannian; Chi Haotian (4 February 1998). 历史风云中的一代英杰—深切悼念伍修权同志. People's Daily. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ MacFarquhar, Roderick (1997). The Origins of the Cultural Revolution- 3. The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966. pp. 318–322.
- ^ "徐迟之子深情回忆：伍修权将军和诗人徐迟". Sohu. 3 March 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "一代宗师徐舜寿". China.com.cn. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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