Chu Teh

British

/ ˈtʃuː ˈteɪ /

noun

1886–1976, Chinese military leader and politician; he became commander in chief of the Red Army (1931) and was chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (1959–76)

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In his teens he was training to be an electrical engineer when he met Chu Teh Chun, then studying art under Lin Fengmian at the Academy of Art in Hangzhou, to the south.

From The Guardian

On either side Chu Teh and Chou En-lai each had caves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chu Teh had a fine cave suite to his left, Chou En-lai to his right.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Zhongyang was all there on the Hill that first night: Mao himself; his wife Jiang Qing; Chou Enlai; Chu Teh; Peng Dehuai; Liu Shaoqi; the band of comrades who had shaken not only China but the world, comrades whose devotion to one another gave victory to their revolution.

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In July Chu Teh commander in chief of the revolution's armies, died.

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