That year, he participated in the failed Nanchang Uprising and was forced to flee to Hong Kong with two other uprising leaders, Zhou Enlai and Ye Ting (no relation), with only a pair of handguns to share between them. He taught at the Whampoa Military Academy, and in 1927 joined the Communist Party. Īfter graduation from the Yunnan Military Academy in 1919, he joined the Kuomintang (KMT). After Deng ascended power, in his capacity as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Ye served as China's head of state during the period from 1978 to 1983.īorn Ye Yiwei ( Chinese: 叶宜伟) into a wealthy Christian Hakka merchant family in an old rural village at Jiaying county (modern-day renamed as Meixian District), his courtesy name was Cangbai ( 滄白) and most of Ye Jianying's siblings died before being adults due to severe illness. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup that overthrew the Gang of Four and ended the Cultural Revolution, and was the key supporter of Deng Xiaoping in his power struggle with Hua Guofeng. Ye Jianying ( simplified Chinese: 叶剑英 traditional Chinese: 葉劍英 28 April 1897 – 22 October 1986) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. Lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China Marshal of the People's Republic of China ![]() Order of Liberation (1st Class Medal) (1955)ġst Army and 4th Army, National Revolutionary Army Order of Independence and Freedom (1st Class Medal) (1955) ![]() Order of August 1 (1st Class Medal) (1955) Order of Victory of Resistance against Aggression (1946) ![]() (Ethnicity: Hakka people subgroup of Han Chinese)Ĭommunist University of the Toilers of the East
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