Gao Gang
![Gao Gang with military leaders in the Northeast, 1948. Left to right: [[Huang Kecheng](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Ninja141534279782774.jpg)
Born in rural Shaanxi province in 1905, Gao Gang joined the party in 1926 and led a revolutionary guerrilla base there during the Chinese Civil War. He was of peasant background with a low level of education: he is said to have not been very literate. Among his colleagues in the party, he gained a reputation as having great confidence and ambition, as well as of being a womanizer. Trusted by Mao Zedong, Gao was dramatically promoted in the final years of the civil war to become the party state and military head of the key Northeast area (Manchuria) of China. In 1952, he was ordered to Beijing to become head of the State Planning Commission of China (SPC), where he later attempted a leadership challenge against Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai. His attempt failed and he committed suicide in August 1954. Provided by Wikipedia
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7by King Andrew P, Boubertakh Redha, Rhode Kawal S, Ma Ying-Liang, Chinchapatnam Phani, Gao Gang, Tangcharoen Tarinee, Ginks Matthew, Hawkes David J, Razavi Reza, Schaeffter Tobias
Published 2008-10-01Article