Li Gongpu (1902-July 12, 1946), whose original name was Li Yongxiang and nickname Jinxiang, was later changed to Gongpu, nicknamed Shiru, and pen name Changxiao. Originally from Wujin, Jiangsu, born in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Chinese social educator, one of the founders and leaders of the China Democratic League.
Li Gongpu was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province. His family was poor and he once worked as an apprentice in Zhenjiang. He studied at Zhenjiang Runzhou Middle School and the High School Affiliated to Wuchang Wenhua University. In 1925, he entered Hujiang University. Influenced by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary democracy and the New Culture Movement, he joined the Kuomintang of China in the same year. During the May 30th Movement, he represented the student group of Hujiang University in the Shanghai Federation of Students and served as the worker section chief.
At the beginning of 1926, Li Gongpu left school and went to Guangzhou to work in the Political Department of the former enemy headquarters on the East Road of the National Revolutionary Army. In May 1927, he served as the special party and government commissioner of the Huning Road of the Huning Road General Political Department of the former enemy on the East Road of the National Revolutionary Army. Later, Li Gongpu left the army because he was dissatisfied with the Kuomintang's "purge" of the party.
In August 1928, he went to the United States to study in the Political Department of Reed University (now translated as Reed College) in Oregon. In the summer of 1930, after Li Gongpu graduated, he went to New York and Europe for inspection at his own expense. In the winter of the same year, he returned to China via Europe.
After returning to China, Li Gongpu served as the president of Global News. In 1932, it published "Shenbao Monthly" and "Shenbao Yearbook", and established "Shenbao" part-time women's tutorial school and "Shenbao" circulation library. In 1933, it founded "Shenbao" part-time tutorial school.
On November 10, 1934, he co-founded the bimonthly "Reading Life" with Liu Shi and Ai Siqi in Shanghai. In 1936, he co-founded Reading Life Publishing House with Zou Taofen and others, and was elected as the executive member and standing committee member of the National Federation of National Salvation Associations. He issued a declaration proposing to "stop all civil wars" and "release all political prisoners."
On November 23, 1936, the Nationalist Government arrested seven leaders of the National Salvation Association, including Shen Junru, Li Gongpu, Zhang Naiqi, Zou Taofen, Shi Liang, Wang Zaoshi, and Sha Qianli, on charges of "endangering the Republic of China." , known in history as the "Seven Gentlemen Incident". After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, they were released from prison in July 1937.
In December 1937, Li Gongpu, together with Zou Taofen, Shen Junru, and Tao Xingzhi, founded the three-day magazine "National War of Resistance" in Wuhan and established the National News Agency. In the same year, he served as a member of the Second Theater National Revolutionary War Field Mobilization Committee and Minister of Propaganda.
At the end of 1937, at the invitation of Yan Xishan, he served as vice president of Shanxi Revolutionary University for Nationalities. In November 1938, he visited Yan'an and met with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. With the support of the Communist Party of China, Li Gongpu established the "Anti-Japanese War and Nation-building Teaching Group" to train anti-Japanese propaganda personnel in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region.
In 1941, Li Gongpu arrived in Kunming, Yunnan, organized a "Youth Reading Club" in Kunming and published "Youth Weekly". In 1942, he founded Beimen Bookstore in Kunming to spread Marxist-Leninist thought; in 1943, he founded Beimen Publishing House.
In October 1944, the Yunnan Branch of the China Democratic League was established in Kunming, and Li Gongpu was elected as the executive member of the branch. On October 1, 1945, he was elected as the Central Executive Committee member of the China Democratic League, and also served as the deputy director of the Democratic Education Committee of the China Democratic League. He also serves as a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese People's Salvation Congress.
In January 1946, he and Tao Xingzhi founded the Social University in Chongqing, with the purpose of "people create a big society and society becomes a university hall". Li Gongpu served as vice president and provost.
On February 10, 1946, the "Campus Incident" occurred. Li Gongpu, a member of the presidium of the conference and the general commander of the conference, was beaten to a bloody head on the spot. In May of the same year, Li Gongpu returned to Kunming from Chongqing after recovering from his injury. On July 11, 1946, Li Gongpu was shot and assassinated on Xueyuanpo, Daxing Street, Kunming. He died in Yunnan University Hospital in the early morning of July 12 due to ineffective rescue efforts. He was only 44 years old.
On July 15, 1946, Wen Yiduo angrily denounced the crime of assassination at a meeting to commemorate Mr. Li Gongpu and delivered the famous "Last Speech". He was assassinated that afternoon.
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Li Gongpu was called a "soldier who dedicated his life to the democratic revolution" by Zhou Enlai, and was worshiped as the "God of Democracy" by Guo Moruo. He was a famous patriotic scholar from Changzhou, Li Gongpu, a democracy fighter and early leader of the China Democratic League. During the Long March of the Red Army, it was also the busiest period when Li Gongpu was campaigning to mobilize the entire people to resist the war.
In 1936, Li Gongpu joined the National Federation for National Salvation and was elected as one of the leaders. He, Shen Junru, Zou Taofen, Shi Liang and others jointly published a declaration article calling on Chiang Kai-shek to stop the civil war and unite with the Red Army to fight He fought against Japan and was arrested by the Kuomintang government. This was the "Seven Gentlemen" incident that shocked the country.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, with the support of progressive people across the country and international friends, Li Gongpu and other seven people were released. Later, he traveled to Taiyuan, Datong, Xuzhou and other places to promote the United Front of the Anti-Japanese War. He also opened various short-term training courses to train young intellectuals and introduced them to Yan'an.
"Two years after the victory of the Red Army's Long March, in 1938, after the Communist Red Army established a firm foothold in northern Shaanxi, he simply went directly to Yan'an twice to fight with Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders. * Leaders met, and *** discussed issues such as the national war of resistance and anti-war education.
Mao Zedong personally wrote the inscription "Qingpingle·Liupanshan" on his wife's painting "The Great Wall", and also personally gave instructions and arrangements. , asked Luo Ruiqing to help him establish the Anti-Japanese War and Nation-building Teaching Group, and sent armed troops to protect them along the way for anti-Japanese war and democratic education. As a result, Li Gongpu established an unbreakable revolutionary friendship with the Communist Party.
Jin Mingde said. The close friendship between Li Gongpu and the Communists lasted until 1946. On the evening of July 11, Li Gongpu was killed by Kuomintang agents.
After Li Gongpu died, Mao Zedong, the leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. , Zhu De jointly issued a message of condolences: "Mr. devoted himself to the cause of saving the country and advancing cultural undertakings. He was mighty and unyielding, and his wealth was not lascivious. Today, for the sake of peace and democracy, we are murdered by the reactionaries. This is actually a loss for the people of the whole country, and it is also the immortal glory of Mr. ”
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Li Gongpu was posthumously recognized as a “revolutionary martyr” and was elected as one of the New China’s Double Centenarians in 2009. Over the past 70 years, countless Changzhou people have transformed their memory and memory of Li Gongpu into building a beautiful hometown.
Especially the members of the Changzhou Democratic League, through the creation and filming of the TV biopic "Li Gongpu", the founding of the Changzhou Democratic League Beimen Bookstore, and the return to the path of Gongpu, etc., they have inherited the tradition and Inspire patriotic feelings
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