Cao Diqiu () (

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Ts'ao Ti-ch'iu) (August 1, 1909 – March 29, 1976) was a

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politician. He was born in

Ziyang Ziyang () prefecture-level city in eastern Sichuan province, China. It is bordered by the provincial capital of Chengdu to the northwest, Deyang to the north, Suining to the northeast, Chongqing municipality to the east, and Neijiang to the wes ...

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Province. He joined the

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in 1929. After graduating from

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, he went to northern

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Province after the outbreak of the

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to participate in guerrilla activities. He was the third mayor of

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under the People's Republic of China until being deposed on January 6, 1967, in the wake of the "

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" phase of the

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.Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, ''Mao's Last Revolution'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) p165 He was also Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and Mayor of Chongqing.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cao, Diqiu 1909 births 1976 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Sichuan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Sichuan Mayors of Shanghai Mayors of Chongqing Political office-holders in Chongqing Victims of the Cultural Revolution Politicians from Ziyang Sichuan University alumni