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Chen Yi

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Chen Yi (chŭn yē), 1901–72, Chinese Communist general and statesman. Chen was a political instructor (1925) in the Kuomintang Kuomintang (gwō`mĭn`däng`, kwō`mĭntăng`) [Chin.
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 Whampoa Military Academy. After the Kuomintang-Communist alliance collapsed (1927), he joined the Fourth Red Army (1928) and was an early supporter of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (mou dzŭ-d
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. One of the outstanding Communist military commanders, Chen became acting commander (1941) and then commander (1946) of the New Fourth Army. After 1949 he was mayor of Shanghai and a dominant figure in E China. He succeeded Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai or Chou En-lai (both: jō ĕn-lī), 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader.
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 as foreign minister (1958), serving during a period of intense rivalry between China and Russia for influence among developing nations. Chen was severely criticized during the Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution, 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong in an attempt to prevent the development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of Communism.
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 despite attempts by Zhou to protect him. After 1967 his role was eclipsed by Zhou, who resumed the direction of foreign policy in his capacity as premier.


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THE TIME spent in France by such major CCP figures as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Li Fuchun, Chen Yi, Cai Hesen and Li Lisan has long been noted, but until the appearance of this book the nature of that experience and the impact of it upon the participants had not been systematically undertaken.
Chen Yi (music), a member of the composition faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was trained as a violinist in the European classical tradition and came in contact with Chinese folk music when she was forced to relocate to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
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