Liu Luyin ( zh, c=刘芦隐, p=Liú Lúyǐn) (b. 1894 – 1969) was a Chinese politician of the
Kuomintang and
CCP in service to the
Republic of China
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and the
People's Republic of China.
Biography
Liu Luyin was born in
Yongfeng County,
Jiangxi Province
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during the late
Qing Empire
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Liu attended school at
Nanchang where he graduated from secondary school. He was thereafter admitted to
Fudan University in
Shanghai. He transferred abroad to the
University of California where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics in 1921.
He became the editor-in-chief of the ''Young China Morning Post'' () and was appointed as the Director-General of the
San Francisco Kuomintang Party Headquarters being also active at the party's Canadian branch. In 1922, he was transferred to Shanghai where he became active in the Kuomintang youth organizations at
Shanghai University. He later became a professor at Fudan University. He became active in the KMT's information and propaganda wing under
Chen Lifu but in 1936, he was purged from the party as a traitor though he escaped execution.
After
Sichuan was taken by the Communists, Liu became a member of the Provincial Research Institute of Culture Librarians and a ''Wen Shi Guan'' Team Leader. In 1955, he was elected to the Sichuan Province CPPCC community working group.
Liu died in 1969 at
Ya'an,
Sichuan.
References
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1894 births
1969 deaths