Wang Jiaxiang

Wang Jiaxiang (Chinese: 王稼祥; pinyin: Wáng Jiàxiáng) (August 15, 1906 - January 25, 1974), one of the senior leaders of the Communist Party of China in its early stage and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks.

Biography

As a native of Jing County, Anhui, Wang studied in the affiliated middle school of Shanghai University in 1925, and went to Moscow Sun Yat-sen University, a university established under the founder of Kuomintang Sun Yat-Sen's policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and CPC and named after him to train revolutionaries for China. It was there Wang and Wang Ming, Zhang Wentian, Bo Gu and other students founded the group 28 Bolsheviks to show their ambition for leadership in Chinese revolution. In 1928 Wang joined the CPC.

With the support from their mentor Paul Mif, the president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen University and then representative of Comintern to China, the 28 Bolsheviks were sent back to China to take leadership of the CPC and they successfully did so after winning a power struggle with Li Lisan. Compared with his counterparts Wang Ming, Bo Gu and Zhang Wentian, Wang got a less important job as secretary for the party newspaper and chief editor of two CPC journals.