Shi Liang, Vice Chairman of the Democratic League of China, is criticized
Shi Liang, who served as the Vice Chairman of the first to third sessions of the CDL Central Committee and the Chairman of the fourth and fifth sessions, studied law in her early years and was a famous barrister in Shanghai, and also made many contributions to the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1959, the National People’s Congress passed the abolition of the Ministry of Justice and Shi Liang became a member of the National People’s Congress.
In 1957, when Mao launched the “Anti-Rightist” campaign, Shi Liang “fired the heavy artillery that hit ‘Zhang Luo'”. According to Zhang Bojun’s daughter Zhang Yihe’s recollection in “The Past is Not as Smoky”, before that, the June 8 People’s Daily editorial “Why is this? On the night of its publication, Shi Liang asked Zhang, who came to his door, “Bojun, did you discuss the draft of Cun Anping’s speech with you beforehand?” Zhang replied, “No, Luo Longji had read it.”
The unsuspecting Zhang Bojun told Shi Liang one by one of his grievances. When he returned home with immense pleasure, his wife Li Jiansheng asked him, “How did you and Shiliang talk?” He replied, “Very well.”
To Zhang Bojun’s surprise, Shi Liang, at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Democratic League on June 14, told him all about those private conversations, including their main points, that is, he said Lu Yuwen was a clown and Hu Feng and Cun Anping were going to become historical figures, and such comments had actually revealed Zhang’s position. position and attitude.” His closing words fall on the person who had been closest to him: “Luo Longji is now out of the country, and when he returns, I also hope that he will be able to give an account of himself.”
In his book, Zhang Yihe goes on to write, “Shi Liang’s speech was delivered in accordance with the requirements and at the right time and with the right momentum. It was like a packet of strong dynamite in a directional blast, blowing up the Democratic Party’s fence from within and blasting out a pre-designed line, so that the ADL, the leading sheep into the altar of the anti-right movement, stumbled along the road.”
The following day all major Beijing newspapers carried the full text of Shi Liang’s speech in front-page headlines. From then on, Zhang and Shi had no more dealings with each other.
During the Great Leap Forward in 1958, Guo Moruo and a group of other senior democrats “joined the CCP with honor”, and Shi Liang also applied to Zhou Enlai, but was rejected by Mao. Zhou called Shiliang “a Bolshevik outside the Party who would be more useful if he did not join the Party”.
In 1963, when Shen Junru, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League of China, died of an illness, just when everyone thought that Shi Liang would take over the presidency of the League of China, the Communist Party appointed a secret member, Yang Mingxuan. Although “she opened the gap in the CDL by fighting against the right” (Luo Longji), and even “without the credit of fighting against the right, her seniority was sufficient” (Zhang Bojun), in fact, the CCP still practiced “distinction between inside and outside But in fact, the CCP still practiced “internal and external distinctions.
This dealt a heavy blow to Shi Liang, who was loyal to the CCP, and since then, her health has been poor, and she often took leave from the political studies of the Central Committee of the Democratic League.
During the Cultural Revolution, Shiliang was criticized and had large-character posters put up, saying that she was a “landlord and capitalist”. The driver she had been assigned to was cancelled, and the heating was stopped, so she had two big stoves at home. She was also forced to work for the UDAR, smashing coal, brushing spittoons, wiping tables, scrubbing floors, and cleaning glass. ……
After the Cultural Revolution, the DLD resumed its activities and Shi Liang finally became the president, when she was nearly 80 years old.
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