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Place of Birth: Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China
About Zhang Guotao
- Zhang Guotao (November 26, 1897 – December 3, 1979), or Chang Kuo-tao, was a founding member and important leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and bitter rival to Mao Zedong.
- During the 1920s he studied in the Soviet Union and became a key contact with the Comintern and organized the CCP labor movement in the United Front with the Guomindang.
- In 1931, after the Party had been driven from the cities, he established the E-Yu-Wan Soviet.
- When his armies were driven from the region, he joined the Long March but lost a contentious struggle for party leadership to Mao Zedong.
- Zhang's armies then took a different route from Mao's and were badly beaten by local forces in Gansu.
- When his depleted forces finally arrived to join Mao in Yan'an, Zhang continued his losing challenge to Mao, and left the party in 1938.
- Zhang eventually retired to Canada, in 1968.
- He became a Christian shortly before his death in Toronto, Ontario in 1979.
- His memoirs provide valuable and vivid information on his life and party history.
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