What You Don't Know About Liu Shaoqi

Author: Wang Guangmei, Liu Yuan, et al
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Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Features: On November 24, 1898, Liu Shaoqi was born in Tanzi Village, less than 30 kilometers away from Shaoshan. One month before his 70th birthday, Liu Shaoqi was branded as a "traitor, saboteur, and labor," and "permanently" expelled from the Communist Party. Only a year later, on the 12th day before his 71st birthday, Liu Shaoqi passed away in injustice. Before the incinerator, his head was covered with over one foot of silver hair. In the final years of Liu Shaoqi's life, only these nine words remained in his marrow, his mind, and even his bones: "It's a good thing history is written by the people!"