Li Xiannian, a former president of China and a ... once even criticizing Mao Tsetung publicly at the height of his reign as party chairman. A member of a clique of eight veteran revolutionaries ...

Chairman Mao Zedong (L) signs a copy of his Little ... relief work in the Communist area that was under the command of Li Xiannian, who later became president of the P.R.C., and Wang Zhen, who ...

But here is another example: “When Li Xiannian, the leader of Hubei [province], went to see [Mao] in Beijing in January 1951, a mere 220 counter-revolutionaries had been liquidated in his province.

Mao Xinyu, grandson of Mao Zedong Source ... Li Xiaolin, daughter of Li Xiannian, attended the University of California, Los Angeles during her work with the Chinese People's Association for ...

Unlike Mao, Deng was a family man with loving children ... taking Chen Yun and another senior leader, Li Xiannian, with him. But the younger leaders who now took over—among them Zhao Ziyang ...

"Chairman Mao nominates you to work in the State Council and assist Li Xiannian to do the work", Zhou Enlai conveyed Mao Zedong's message to Hua Guofeng. Then, Zhou announced this nomination at ...

Now 62, Li is perhaps better known as “Mao’s Last Dancer,” after documenting his journey from poverty under China’s former leader Chairman Mao Zedong to his controversial defection to the ...