Wang Guangmei
Wáng guangmei (Chinese王光美; * September 26, 1921, † 13 October 2006) was the wife of President Liu Shaoqi and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
Biography
Her father was an officer in the Republic of China. Wáng guangmei studied French, Russian, English and physics at the Catholic Fu -Jen University (辅仁 大学, Fǔrén Daxue ) in Beijing. In 1945, she made her doctorate in physics and began to teach at the Furen University.
In 1946 Wáng guangmei to work for the Communist Party of China. Shortly after, she went to the headquarters of the Communist Party in Yan'an and worked after the Second World War, gave as an interpreter for George C. Marshall in the negotiations between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai- shek.
In Yan'an, she met Liu Shaoqi and married him in August 1948. At the same time she became a member of the Communist Party and accompanied Liú early 1960s on state visits to Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan and Indonesia.
1966 Wáng guangmei was part of a group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which deposed the management of that institution, but in 1967 it was even - as Liu Shaoqi - attacked by Red Guards tortured, accused of a counterrevolutionary and a spy for the United States to be, and imprisoned. Liu Shaoqi died in captivity at the consequences of substandard medical care. In September 1978, newspapers reported in Hong Kong that Wáng guangmei was still alive. She was released on December 12, 1978 from prison and acquitted in March 1979 of their "crimes", shortly after Mao's widow Jiang Qing was taken together with the other members of the Gang of Four, the process.
After her release, she headed the Foreign Office of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and devoted himself to social issues.
Wáng guangmei had four children. Their eldest son Liu Yuan was political commissar of the Military Academy in Běijīng; her daughter Liú Pingping studied in Boston and Harvard and is president of the consulting firm Asia Link Group.
Wáng guangmei died on 13 October 2006 in Běijīng and was buried at the military cemetery Bābǎoshān (八宝山) on 21 October 2006.