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Yu Guanglang

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Other names
  
余光烺

Other name
  
余光烺

Died
  
1980, China

Political party
  
Communist Party of China

Born
  
1897
Qing Empire

Yu Guanglang (zh: 余光烺, pinyin: Yú Guānglǎng) (b. 1897 - d. 1980) was a Chinese politician and scholar who served the Chinese Communist Party.

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Early life and family origins

Yu was born in 1897 in Tongcheng , Anhui Province during the late Qing Empire. He grew up without his father and was raised largely by his siblings. He attended the Tongcheng Secondary School which was notable for its creation of many political and revolutionary figures of the period.

Biography

After graduating from Tongcheng Secondary School, Yu went to Japan and then the United States to continue his education in a work-study program.

In the 17th year of the founding of the Republic of China (1928), he returned to China where he became a mathematics professor at Nanking University. Due to his schoolboy connections to Fang Chih, a government official, he was offered various positions within the Kuomintang government but declined to accept them. These refusals soon alienated Yu from the ruling party and he gradually became active in the Communist underground to whom Yu offered his house for the purpose of holding secret meetings. The Kuomintang Secret Police eventually had Yu listed as a Communist spy. Further career promotions for Yu were blacklisted and his activities were monitored by authorities.

After the fall of Nanking to the Communist forces, Yu became an influential figure in the field of education with the new Communist government. He went on to become a member of the Jiangsu Province Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee and the deputy director of the Nanjing NLD student organization.

References

Yu Guanglang Wikipedia


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