Biography of Zhang Guotao

Author: Yao Jinguo
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Zhang Guotao was a special figure in the history of modern China. His life was filled with ups and downs, twists and turns, from rise and glory to setbacks and decline. He had dazzling achievements, outrageous mistakes, and despicable acts of betrayal—he was a man of both accomplishment and error, honor and disgrace. The first half of Zhang Guotao's life was intertwined with the Communist Party of China, having been arrested twice by the Beiyang warlords; he was disciplined by the Central Committee of the CCP several times; he went to Moscow three times, being the only leader of the CCP to receive the honor of a personal audience with Lenin. The second half of his life was tied to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, yet he was ultimately abandoned and had to drift in foreign lands.