Liu Shaoqi, born November 24, 1898, in Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, was a prominent political theorist, labor leader, and a core figure in the early Communist Party of China. His expertise was in underground party work, labor union organizing, and developing CPC ideology, effectively serving as Mao's right-hand man for years. However, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu was brutally targeted by Mao as a "capitalist roader," purged, and died under severe persecution. His posthumous rehabilitation critically highlighted the immense excesses and tragedies of that chaotic and violent period.
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Element
Year
Liu Shaoqi
1898
Birth of Liu Shaoqi (Period: November 24, 1898, Location: Tanzi Chong, Huaminglou Town, Ningxiang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, China)
1920
Marriage (Liu Shaoqi, He Baozhen, Age: 21 years old, Period: Presumed early 1920s, Location: Details Unknown)
1921
Studies at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow and Joining the Chinese Communist Party (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1921, Location: Moscow, Soviet Union)
1922
Anyuan Coal Miners' Strike (Age: 23 years old, Period: September 1922, Location: Anyuan, Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China)
1925
May Thirtieth Movement (Age: 26 years old, Period: May 1925–, Location: Various regions in China, centered around Shanghai)
1929
Chinese Eastern Railway Incident (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1929, Location: Along the Chinese Eastern Railway in Northeast China)
1930
Marriage (Liu Shaoqi, Xie Fei, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: Details Unknown)
Marriage (Liu Shaoqi, Wang Qian, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: Details Unknown)
1941
Wannan Incident (New Fourth Army Incident, Age: 42 years old, Period: January 1941, Location: Southern Anhui Province, China)
1945
7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (Age: 46 years old, Period: April–June 1945, Location: Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China)
1948
Marriage (Liu Shaoqi, Wang Guangmei, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1948, Location: China)
1949
Establishment of the People's Republic of China (Age: 50 years old, Period: October 1, 1949, Location: Beijing City, China)
1959
Assumption of the Presidency of the People's Republic of China (Liu Shaoqi, Age: 60 years old, Period: April 1959, Location: Beijing City, China)
1966
Purge of Liu Shaoqi during the Cultural Revolution (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1966–1969, Location: China, mainly Beijing and Kaifeng, Henan Province)
1969
Death of Liu Shaoqi (Age: 70 years old, Period: November 12, 1969)
1980
Rehabilitation (Age: 10 years after death, Period: 1980, Location: Beijing City, China)
Unknown
Marriage (Liu Shaoqi, Other Spouses, Period: Details Unknown, Location: Details Unknown)
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