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Li Gongpu (1902- 1946) was a Chinese journalist and radical intellectual of the Republican period  Li was an active member of the Chinese Nationalist Party but in the 1930s became disillusioned with its weak response to Japanese aggression. Li joined other laft-wing activists to form the China Democratic League. He was assassinated in 1946 by gunmen widely assumed to be right-wing Nationalis,s,. Wen Yiduo delivered a eulogy in which he accused the Nationalist of the crime; Wen himself was gunned down on his way home.

Life
Li Gongpu was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and since his family was poor he worked as an apprentice in Zhenjiang. a nearby river port city.He studied at the Zhenjiang Runzhou high school, Wuchang Wen Hua University High School in 1925. As a student at the University of Shanghai he read Sun Yat-sen's works on revolution and democracy (Minzhuzhuyi)  and the New Culture Movement influence, in the same year joined the Chinese Nationalist Party. In the May 26 Movement, a majr protest against Japanese and British imperialism, the student group representing Hujiang University participated in the Shanghai Federation of Students and served as the head of the Workers.

张曼筠 1901-1975

In 1928 he married zh:张曼筠 (1901-1975), the daughter of a prominent Shanghai painter.



At the beginning of 1926, Li left school and went to Guangzhou to serve in the Political Department of the former enemy headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army. In May 1927, he served as the party and government commissioner of the former Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army East Road. Later, due to dissatisfaction with the Kuomintang " Qing Party, " Li Gongpu left the army. In August 1928 Li went to the United States and enrolled in Reed College to study political science. In the summer of 1930, after he, graduated, Li went to New York and Europe at his own expense and returned the following winter.

After returning to China, Li Gongpu served as the president of the Global News Agency. In 1932, he published the "Reporting Monthly" and "Declaration Yearbook", and founded the "Reporting" amateur women's tutoring school and the "Declaration" circulation library. In 1933, he founded the "Reporting" amateur tutoring school. On November 10, 1934, Liu Wei and Ai Siqi co-founded the bi-monthly magazine Dushu in Shanghai. In 1936, he co-founded the Reading Life Publishing Housewith Zou Taofen and others, and was elected as the executive member and standing committee member of the National Federation of Salvation Congress. He issued a declaration proposing "to stop all civil wars" and "release all political prisoners." November 23, 1936, the national government on charges of "endangering the Republic" and arrested the leaders of National Salvation Shen Jun Ru, Zhang Naiji, Shi Liang, Wang Zaoshi.

sand thousands of miles away seven people, known as the "Seven Gentlemen Incident". After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression the seven were released from prison in July 1937.

In December 1937, Li Gongpu founded the "Three Wars of the People" in Wuhan together with Zou Taofen, Shen Yuru and Tao Xingzhi, and established a national news agency. In the same year, he served as a member of the National Revolutionary War Battlefield General Mobilization Committee and Minister of Propaganda in the Second Theater.

At the end of 1937, he was invited by Yan Xishan to serve as the vice president of Shanxi National Revolution University. In November 1938, went to Yan'an, the headquarters of the Communist Party of China, and met with Mao Zedong and other Central Committee leaders. With the support of the Party, Li formed the "Anti-Japanese Warring States Teaching Group" to train anti-Japanese propaganda personnel in the Jinchaji border area and the Jin, Shandong and Henan border areas.

In 1941, Li Gongpu arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, which was outside the direct control of the Nationalist government in Chongqing, and organized a “ Youth Reading Club ” to publish Youth Weekly. In 1942, he founded the North Gate Bookstore to spread Marxism-Leninism; in 1943, he founded the North Gate Publishing House. In October 1944, the Yunnan Branch of the China Democratic League was established in Kunming, and Li was elected an executive member of the branch. On October 1, 1945, he was elected as the executive member of the China Democratic League Central Committee and also served as the deputy director of the China Democratic League Democratic Education Committee. He is also a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese People's Salvation Congress.

In January 1946 Li and Tao Xingzhi founded a social university in Chongqing. The purpose was "people create a big society, society becomes a university hall", Li was the vice president and provost. On February 10, 1946, the "school entrance incident" occurred in which members of the presidium of the conference and the general commander of theconference, Li Gongpu, were beaten on the spot. After he recovered, in May of the same year, Li returned to Kunming. On July 11, 1946, Li Gongpu was shot and stabbed at the Daxing Street College and died in the Yunnan University Hospital on the morning of July 12, at the age of 44. On July 15, 1946, Wen Yiduo sang at Li's memorial service and expresse anger at Li's assassination and published the famous "Last Speech". Wen was assassinated that afternoon and Tao Xingzhi was assassinated

Works

 * 華北敵後——晉察冀（1940年出版 / published in 1940）
 * 全民動員論
 * 青年之路
 * 抗戰教育的理論與實踐
 * 走上勝利之路的
 * Presidential Elections (1928)