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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 [Chin.,=national people's party] (KMT), Chinese and Taiwanese political party. Sung Chiao-jen organized the party in 1912, under the nominal leadership of Sun Yat-sen, to succeed the Revolutionary Alliance.
..... Click the link for more information.  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 , 1893–1976, founder of the People's Republic of China. Mao was one of the most prominent Communist theoreticians and his ideas on revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare have been extremely influential,
..... Click the link for more information. . 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 , 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader. A member of a noted Mandarin family, he was educated in China at an American-supported school and a university in Japan.
..... Click the link for more information.  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.
..... Click the link for more information.  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 Chen Yi piece, to a Chinese poem, is very effective, with sound effects of insects and birds.
ON A CHANTICLEER DAY, YOU CAN SING FOREVER by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
David Blumenfeld is a partner, and Chen Yi a corporate department associate, at Paul, Hasting, Janofsky & Walker LLP.
New rules will further restrict foreign investment in China by Blumenfeld, David; Yi, Chen / Real Estate Weekly
With scarcely a pause to catch their breath, the Clevelanders traveled from 19th-century Heidelberg to the dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish world of Chen Yi, who combines a deep knowledge of Chinese folk music (learned while she endured two years of forced labor during China’s Cultural Revolution) with an almost frighteningly sophisticated command of Western microtonality.
A Trio of Playful Concerts: The Sheer Delight in Doing It by Charles Michener / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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