Liu Shaoqi
-Revolutionary, Communist, president of the PRC
-1898-1969, died in prison.
-The most famous victim of the Cultural Revolution, “the biggest unjust case of the CCP”, he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1980 and given a state funeral

Zhou Enlai
-A leader of the CCP, Revolutionary, diplomat
-1898-1976
-The first Primer of the PRC, most important political partner of Mao, very positive appraise by the history and Chinese people.

American Volunteer Group

Lin Biao
- a major Communist military leader
-Leader of the army during the civil war, especially in Northeastern China.
- Lin had chance to be the successor of Mao, but his relation with Mao became terrible later in the Cultural Revolution. Lin died in plane crush in Mongolia, and he is also blamed for the cultural revolution

Jiang Qing
-4th Wife of Mao
-Became to be active in Chinese political life in 1960s Cultural revolution. -She is the leader of Gang of Four, also one of the main leaders during the CR.

Joseph Stilwell
-American General,
-US government sent Stilwell to Chongqing in 1942
- The Chief of Staff in China Burma India Theater, left the position because of conflicts with Jiang;

Red Guards
-A special group of China during the CR. Most RG are students
-During the CR
-So called “solider of Chairman Mao”, regard the little red book as all the truth, easy to be egged and the main power of CR

Hu Yaobang
-The General Secretary of the CCP
-Took the position during 1982-1987, the begging time of reform and open policies
-His death led a lot students hold the public memorial and later became a student revolution, the Tiananmen Massacre.

Deng Xiaoping
-The Second generation of the CCP leader
-1904-1997,
-“the general designer of China's Reform and Opening program”. “One Country, two system”. Times Person the Year in 1985 and 1978. His policies are