Deng Yingchao

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Deng Yingchao (simplified Chinese: 邓颖超; traditional Chinese: 鄧穎超; pinyin: Dèng Yǐngchāo; Jyutping: Dang6 Wing6-ciu1; 4 February 1904 – 11 July 1992) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician and women's rights activist who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than six decades. She chaired the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 1983 to 1988, and she was the wife of Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People's Republic of China. Born in Guangxi, Deng became a leader of the women's movement in Tianjin during the May Fourth Movement, founding women's organizations and publications that called for women's education and employment and opposed arranged marriage and foot-binding. She joined the CCP in 1925, the year she married Zhou, and she was one of the few women to complete the Long March. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, she directed the party's work among women from Wuhan and Chongqing, and she was the only woman...

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