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Liu Shaoqi

American  
[lyoo shou-chee] / ˈlju ˈʃaʊˈtʃi /
Wade-Giles, Liu Shao-ch'i

noun

  1. 1898–1973, Chinese Communist leader: head of state 1959–66.


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He turned to other members of the CCP, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqi, to rectify the situation and allowed them to largely assume day-to-day control of China.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

The next “state chairman” was Liu Shaoqi, who died in detention during the Cultural Revolution, a year after being stripped of all his titles for alleged disloyalty to Mao.

From Washington Post Oct. 19, 2022

At the top of Mao’s target list were President Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, who was then in charge of party administration.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2016

Members included Liu He, a childhood playmate who had become a reform-minded economist, and Liu Yuan, a hawkish general and the son of former President Liu Shaoqi.

From The New Yorker Mar. 30, 2015

Both Peng Dehuai and Liu Shaoqi had lived so close to Mao below the ledge in the Date Garden of Yanan — how could he have let them be put to death?

From Time Magazine Archive

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