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Xie Xuehong
Xie in 1952
Chair of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League
In office
1949–1958
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byCai Xiao (1979)
Personal details
Born
Xie Shi Anu

(1901-10-17)17 October 1901
Shōka town, Shōka district, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan (today Changhua City, Taiwan)
Died5 November 1970(1970-11-05) (aged 69)
Beijing, China
CitizenshipEmpire of Japan (1901–1945)
Republic of China (1945–1949)
People's Republic of China (after 1949)
Political partyTaiwanese Communist Party (1928–1931)
Chinese Communist Party (1948–1958)
Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (1947–1958)
Other political
affiliations		Taiwanese People's Party (1928–1931)
Xie Xuehong
Traditional Chinese謝雪紅
Simplified Chinese谢雪红
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiè Xuěhóng
Birth name
Traditional Chinese謝氏阿女
Simplified Chinese谢氏阿女
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiè Shì Ānǚ

Xie Xuehong (Chinese: 謝雪紅; 17 October 1901 – 5 November 1970), born Xie Shi Anu (謝氏阿女), was a Chinese politician. A women's rights activist, she cofounded the Taiwanese Communist Party, active in Japanese Taiwan. Persecuted by the Kuomintang after its forces retreated to Taiwan, she escaped to mainland China, where she became a member of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League and the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Xie was born in Changhua County in 1901 to a working-class family, the fourth of seven children.[1] She assumed at least five other names throughout her lifetime.[1] At the age of twelve, she moved in with another family. Her adoptive family was abusive, and, instead of entering an arranged marriage with their son, Hong Xinhu, she left their home. Xie met and married Zhang Shumin in 1918. For a time, the couple lived in Kobe, Japan, where the Taishō period of democracy heavily influenced Xie. Soon after Xie and Zhang moved to China, the couple split, as Xie had discovered that Zhang was still married to another woman. Xie then began to give sewing lessons, while also making and selling clothes. The May Fourth Movement was a political turning point for Xie, and she later joined Chiang Wei-shui's resistance against Japanese rule.[2][3] Xie studied sociology at Shanghai University and took part in the May Thirtieth Movement of 1925,[3] the same year she was told to join the Chinese Communist Party.[4] Xie then moved to Moscow for further education at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, which she attended for two years. In November 1927, she returned to China and began taking actions that led to the founding of the Taiwanese Communist Party (TCP) in 1928. At the direction of Sen Katayama, cofounder of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), Xie and Lin Mu-shun [zh] began recruiting for what would become the TCP in Shanghai. Both traveled to Japan to seek help from the JCP on a draft of a party charter, which was smuggled by Xie past Japanese authorities in Shanghai upon her return to China in February 1928. The TCP's charter was approved by a Chinese Communist Party official using the pseudonym Peng Jung on 13 April 1928, and the Taiwanese Communist Party's founding ceremony was held two days later.[5]

Xie's ideology spread to Chiang's Taiwanese People's Party and Taiwanese Cultural Association after she took on leadership positions in the two groups. She believed that a maintaining a distinct Taiwanese identity and allowing bourgeoisie to participate would allow communism to flourish in Taiwan. Others disagreed and Xie was expelled from the Taiwanese Communist Party in 1931. Later that year, she was arrested and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for advocating communism. In 1939, Xie was released after catching tuberculosis.[2][3]

Xie returned to political activism in 1945, when Kuomintang forces arrived in Taiwan, stating that "Taiwan must be ruled by Taiwanese."[3] In September 1946, Xie established the Taiwan People’s Association, which was disestablished by the Kuomintang government in January 1947.[6] In 1947, she convened the 27 Brigade and was involved in the February 28 incident from her home base in Taichung, telling the masses not to damage property or injure anyone.[3] Three weeks later, she escaped to Hong Kong, where she founded the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League,[7][8][9] and later moved to Xiamen. Under Xie's leadership, the league opposed the aims of the Formosan League for Reemancipation, which backed formal independence or trusteeship.[7] At its founding, Taimeng backed liberation of Taiwan from the control of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.[6] In China, Xie was active in the China Youth League and served on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[8] However, Xie continued to push for Taiwan's right to self-determination, views for which the Chinese Communist Party targeted her during the Anti-Rightist Campaign.[3][10][11] Actions taken against Xie included her removal as leader of Taimeng, her expulsion from the CCP and removal from the National People's Congress, all in 1958.[12][13] Xie died in Beijing in 1970, a victim of the Cultural Revolution. She was posthumously rehabilitated by the Chinese Communist Party in 1986.[3][10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2003). 中國婦女傳記詞典: The Twentieth Century, 1912–2000. M.E. Sharpe. p. 591. ISBN 9780765607980.
  2. ^ a b Chen, Ya-chen (October 2012). "Taiwanese Communist Feminist, Xie Xuehong: Li Ang's Literary Portrait of Xie Xuehong's Pre-1949 Feminist Activism in Taiwan" (PDF). (En)Gendering Taiwan. Vol. 19. pp. 119–126. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_3. ISBN 978-3-319-63217-9. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Han Cheung (2 October 2016). "Taiwan in Time: A leftist under three regimes". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ^ Chiou, C. L. (1 March 1993). "The uprising of 28 February 1947 on Taiwan: The official 1992 investigation report". China Information. 7 (4): 1–19. doi:10.1177/0920203X9300700401. S2CID 220850755.
  5. ^ Han Cheung (11 April 2021). "Taiwan in Time: The ill-fated Taiwanese leftists". Taipei Times. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  6. ^ a b Han Cheung (10 November 2019). "Taiwan in Time: The Taiwanese who hoped to 'liberate' Taiwan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  7. ^ a b Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf, ed. (2008). Dangerous Strait: The U.S.--Taiwan—China Crisis. Columbia University Press. p. 49. ISBN 9780231135658.
  8. ^ a b Rubinstein, Murray A. (2007). Taiwan: A New History. M. E. Sharpe. p. 317. ISBN 9780765614940.
  9. ^ Katsiaficas, George N. (2013). Asia's Unknown Uprisings. PM Press. p. 183. ISBN 9781604864885.[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ a b Blanchard, Ben (27 February 2007). "China tries to reclaim Taiwan political heroine". Reuters. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  11. ^ a b Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2016). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Routledge. pp. 648–649. ISBN 9781315499239.
  12. ^ "News from the mainland". Free China Review. 1 February 1958. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  13. ^ "News from the mainland". Free China Review. 1 March 1958. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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