Chen Zaidao

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chen Zaidao (simplified Chinese: 陈再道; traditional Chinese: 陳再道; pinyin: Chén Zàidào, 1909 – 1993) was a Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, who commanded the Wuhan Military Region 1954-67. He is most noted for having arrested pro-Mao Xie Fuzhi and Wang Li during the Wuhan Incident in July 1967. He was promptly dismissed after the incident, but was rehabilitated in 1972 and entered the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1978.

See also

List of officers of the People's Liberation Army

References

• Thomas W. Robinson. "The Wuhan Incident: Local Strife and Provincial Rebellion During the Cultural Revolution," The China Quarterly (1971), 47: pp. 413-18.