Zhao Shiyan | |||||||
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赵世炎 | |||||||
Member of the 5th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | |||||||
In office 9 May 1927 – 19 July 1927 | |||||||
General Secretary | Chen Duxiu | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | Youyang Zhou, Sichuan, Qing China | 13 April 1901||||||
Died | 19 July 1927 Shanghai, Republic of China | (aged 26)||||||
Political party | Communist Party of China | ||||||
Spouse | Xia Zhixu | ||||||
Relations | Zhao Juntao (sister) Li Shuoxun (brother-in-law) Li Peng (nephew) | ||||||
Children | 2 sons | ||||||
Parent | Zhao Dengzhi | ||||||
Alma mater | High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 赵 世 炎 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 趙 世 炎 | ||||||
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Courtesy name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 琴 荪 [1] | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 琴 蓀 | ||||||
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Zhao Shiyan ( Chinese: 赵世炎; 13 April 1901–19 July 1927) was a Chinese Communist martyr and former Chinese premier Li Peng's uncle.
Zhao was born in Youyang Zhou, Sichuan (now Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing), on 13 April 1901, to Zhao Dengzhi (赵登之). In 1915, Zhao went to Beijing to study at the High School Affiliated with Beijing Normal University and majored in English. In 1919, he participated in the May Fourth Movement, China Youth Association. The following year, he went to France to study, co-founded the Communist Party of China. [2] In 1922, Zhao Shiyan and Ho Chi Minh were invited to join the French Communist Party. In 1922, he went to the Soviet Union and studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. In 1923, he was appointed as CPC Party Committee Chairman in Beijing. In the same year in December, he was appointed as Chairman of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In 1926, Zhao was sent to Shanghai with Zhou Enlai to lead the workers' armed uprising during the Northern Expedition. On 12 April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a coup against his communist allies and massacred them in Shanghai. After Chen Yannian was arrested by Kuomintang, Zhao took over as secretary of CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee. Zhao was arrested at his home on North Sichuan Road on 2 July because a renegade betrayed him. He was executed in Shanghai on 19 July.
Zhao married Xia Zhixu (夏之栩), the couple had two sons, Zhao Shige (赵施格) and Zhao Lingchao (赵令超).
Zhao's sister Zhao Juntao married Li Shuoxun. Their son, Li Peng served as China's premier from 1987 to 1998.