Ye Ting
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Guangdong
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, was a Chinese
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leader. He started out nationalist and went to the communists.
Ye Ting joined the Kuomintang
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...
when Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen
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founded it in 1919 (the Kuomintang existed prior to 1919 but was called the Chinese Revolutionary Party) and from 1921 was a battalion commander in the National Revolutionary Army
National Revolutionary Army
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. In 1924 he studied in the Soviet Union and in December of that year joined the Communist Party of China
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. In September 1925 he returned to China to serve first as staff officer, then as independent regiment commander, in the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army
National Revolutionary Army
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. In May 1926 he led an advance detachment in the Northern Expedition, with several victories in August. In September he besieged Wuchang, breaking through the defenses on the 10th of October. In 1927 he was a) deputy division commander of the 15th Division, b) division commander of the 24th Division of the 11th Army, and c) deputy army commander of the 11th Army.
On August 1, with Chen Yi
Chen Yi (communist)
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, Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai
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, He Long
He Long
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, Zhu De
Zhu De
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, Ye Jianying
Ye Jianying
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, Lin Biao
Lin Biao
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, Liu Bocheng
Liu Bocheng
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and Guo Moruo
Guo Moruo
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, he participated in the failed Nanchang Uprising
Nanchang Uprising
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, when the “Workers and Peasants Red Army
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”, called the People's Liberation Army
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from 1946, was founded. After Nanchang, he went to Hong Kong, whence on December 11 he led the Canton Uprising. After this uprising failed, he was persecuted as a scapegoat and as a result, he was exiled to Europe and when he returned to Asia went into hiding in Macao.
In 1937 he served as army commander of the New Fourth Army
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. As a result of the New Fourth Army Incident
New Fourth Army Incident
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, he was put in jail for five years, until 1946. On April 8 of that year, after he was released, en route from Chongqing
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to Yan'an
Yan'an
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, he died in a plane crash. Among the victims were some of his family members and several senior CPC leaders such as Bo Gu
Qin Bangxian
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, Deng Fa
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, and Wang Ruofei. There are rumors that Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
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arranged the crash.
Ye Ting had a total of nine children. One of his granddaughters, Ye Xiaoyan (叶小燕), the daughter of Ye Ting's second son Ye Zhengming (叶正明), is married to Li Xiaoyong (李小勇), the second son and youngest child of former Chinese premier Li Peng
Li Peng
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. Ye Xiaoyan and her husband along with her mother-in-law Zhu Lin (朱琳) (i.e. Li Peng's wife), are targets of public anger due to their alleged involvement of one of the largest financial crime cases in Chinese history.