12 Notable alumni of
Hunan First Normal University
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Hunan First Normal University is 2636th in the world, 653rd in Asia, and 75th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Hunan First Normal University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mao Zedong
- Enrolled in Hunan First Normal University
- Studied in 1913-1918
- Occupations
- teacherpoetstrategistphilosophercalligrapher
- Biography
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Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party during that time. His theories, military strategies and policies are known as Maoism.
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Ren Bishi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ren Bishi was a military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Li Weihan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Weihan was a Chinese Communist Party politician. After pursuing his studies in France in 1919–20, he returned to China for the Party's founding Congress in Shanghai in 1921. He became a member of the Politburo in 1927 but fell out of favour shortly afterwards in the wake of the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in junction of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. When he sought to bring the uprising to an end, he found himself accused of cowardice. Li was eclipsed until reemerging in the early 1930s as a supporter of Li Lisan, a leading figure in the party at the time, and an opponent of the anti-Mao 28 Bolsheviks faction.
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Cai Hesen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cai Hesen was an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and a friend and comrade of Mao Zedong. Cai was born in Shanghai but grew up in Shuangfeng County in Hunan Province of China. He helped Mao organize the Changsha New People's Study Society. In 1919 he went to France on the Work-Study program, and his letters of advocacy were important in convincing Mao of the Bolshevik revolutionary approach. On his return to China, he was an important leader and organizer for the young Communist Party, spent several years in Moscow, and returned to China again in 1931. While organizing revolutionary activity in Hong Kong, he was arrested and given over to Canton authorities, who executed him in August, 1931.
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Chen Tianhua
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Tianhua was a Chinese revolutionary born in Xinhua, Hunan province to a poor peasant family during the Qing dynasty.
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Xiao Zisheng
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Xiao Zisheng was a Chinese educator and scholar.
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He Shuheng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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He Shuheng was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, born in Ningxiang, Hunan province.
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Xiao San
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianliterary criticpoettranslator
- Biography
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Xiao San was a Chinese poet and translator. He was fluent in Russian, French, German, and English.
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Duan Dechang
- Years
- 1904-1933 (aged 29)
- Biography
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Duan Dechang was a member of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He was born in Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan Province. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in June 1925 and the Communist Party of China in September 1925. He participated in the Northern Expedition. Around this time, he met Peng Dehuai. In August 1927, after the beginning of the Chinese Civil War between the communists and the Kuomintang, Duan participated in the Nanchang Uprising. After its defeat, he went to Gong'an County in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. In November 1931, he traveled from the Honghu Soviet in Hubei in Ruijin in the Jiangxi Soviet for a conference to coordinate the various Soviets. During the purges carried out by Xia Xi, Duan was one of those who died. He was killed in Badong County, Hubei. After requesting the executioners not to use bullets, he was put to death by the sword.
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Yuan Guoping
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Yuan Guoping was a Communist army officer who participated in the Northern Expedition, the first phase of the Chinese Civil War (1927–37) and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Zhou Gengsheng
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Zhou Gengsheng was a Chinese jurist, historian and academic.
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Guo Liang
- Years
- 1901-1928 (aged 27)
- Occupations
- political activist
- Biography
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Guo Liang was a communist, one of famous leaders of the early worker's movement in Hunan. Guo was Mao Zedong's revolutionary follower and was killed by the Hunan Kuomintang authority on March 29, 1928.
