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In September 1947, Chen Brei, a member of Chiang Kai-shek’s staff and known as the “courage of letters”, wrote a short letter to Chiang, saying that his daughter and son-in-law had arrived in Nanjing from Beiping on suspicion of being “communists” and that he was at liberty to decide what crime they should commit.
Chen’s youngest daughter, Chen Lian, was very different from her father, as she had already become an underground member in 1939. Because her father was a popular person around Chiang Kai-shek, she was valued by the organization and was sent to study in Chongqing during the war, and then to Peking to lurk. Together with her husband Yuan Yongxi, she mingled within the circles of the KMT dignitaries in Beiping and provided a lot of first-hand information. After being targeted by the Military Intelligence, her life was at stake for a while. This is what led Chen Bre to write a letter to Chiang to plead for mercy.
Chen Bre, as a typical traditional literati, is a loner by nature and has been grateful for Jiang’s kindness all his life. This time, the face of the plea, if not a desperate, will not speak. In November 1948, in the midst of an all-out KMT defeat, Chen Bre, a member of his staff, was so ashamed that he committed suicide in his torment.
After 1949, Chen Lian became head of the Children and Youth Department of the Communist Youth League. But what had once been an infiltration status soon became the beginning of a nightmare, as the couple both came under scrutiny. Her husband, then the first secretary of the party committee of Tsinghua University, was classified as a rightist in 1956, expelled from the party and public office, and sent to labor camps. Under pressure, Chen Lian was forced to divorce. In November 1967, Chen Lian jumped to her death from a building in Shanghai, unable to defend herself. After her death, she was expelled from the Party because she was “afraid of committing suicide”.
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In 1941, at the age of 17, Fu Dongju, a student at Nankai High School in Chongqing, secretly joined the underground youth organization “Horn Society”. Her main task was to visit her father, Fu Zuoyi, the commander-in-chief of the North China bandits, in Beiping.
Fu Dongju used her father’s trust in her, personally stole a large number of military information, through the “North China General” office located in Tianjin Huangjia Garden, secretly transmitted to the organization, the loss of initiative Fu Zuoyi’s military operations repeatedly failed, puzzled.
Even so, in the midst of the dilemma, the situation in North China is not clear. Fu Zuoyi still has up to 600,000 troops under his command, occupying the main urban strongholds of North China. Fu, as the general of a hundred battles, was not positive about peace talks. If you make a beast fight, the end is not known. During this time Fu Dongju as an intermediary, operating a large number of private lobbying, completely shaken the determination of Fu Zuoyi, and finally contributed to the defection. Fu Zuoyi from the beginning to the end thought that his daughter is only entrusted with the intermediary, never thought of the underground party.
After that, Fu Dongju was arranged to work in the People’s Daily. During the “Cultural Revolution”, Fu Dongju was also taken out as a “class dissident” and was brutally criticized and labeled as “anti-party”. She went to her father, who was the Minister of Water Resources, to plead for mercy. And the same was criticized, and even his own brother starved to death in the folder can not save Fu Zuoyi extremely cold, said to her: “from now on, you do not come again.”
Later in life, Fu Dongju life in distress, the meager pension almost let her can not afford to see a doctor, can not afford to stay in the hospital. In the housing reform required individuals to buy down the public housing, and this symbolic not much money, she could not even take. Before she died of illness in 2007, she said that she could slowly understand many of her father’s thoughts back then, but it was already too late.
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After graduating from Shanghai Cosmos University, she joined the revolution and participated in the Northern Expedition. She served as a major in the Song and Shanghai Police Command and secretary to General Cai Tingkai of the 19th Route Army, as well as a lieutenant colonel staff officer, and participated in the Song and Shanghai War; during the Anti-Japanese War, she served as a major general director of the Beijing-Shanghai District of the International Studies Institute of the Kuomintang Military Council. During this period, Gu Gaogao accepted Pan Hannian’s strategy, established contact with the Shanghai underground party organization, provided a lot of information, and made a great contribution to cover the activities of the underground radio station of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1955, the “Pan Hannian case” fermented and Gu Gaogao was arrested by association, and in 1958 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison and sent to Qinghai for labor reform.
His daughter, Gu Shengying, grew up studying music and was gifted in piano. She joined the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra as a soloist at the age of 17 in 1954 and entered the Central Conservatory of Music in 1956, later going to Moscow for further study. Gu Shengying won the gold medal at the 6th World Youth Festival Piano Competition in 1957, the top prize in the Women’s Piano Competition at the 14th International Music Competition in Geneva in 1958, and the laurel at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium in 1964. …… can be said to be famous in the world music scene. It can be said that it is far more accomplished than the later famous music world Fu Cong, is an extremely rare genius type musician.
But this intoxicated music, not know the politics of the girl because of her father’s involvement, suffering. Her mother lost her job, her brother became seriously ill, and the burden of the family was so heavy that the girl could hardly breathe. During the Cultural Revolution, she was falsely accused of “collaborating with foreign countries” and was persecuted for being a “child of historical counter-revolution”, and on January 31, 1967, Gu Shengying was humiliated at a criticism meeting of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. After discussing the matter, the family committed suicide by turning on the gas. She was only 29 years old.
It was only after Gu Heights was released in 1975 that he learned of the family tragedy. But he received the family’s urn is empty, the bones of the body does not exist. Alone in his later years, he raised three cats and died of depression to the sound of the piano left by his daughter.
2021/1/14
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