Chen Qiyou | |||||||||
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陈其尤 | |||||||||
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| 4th Chairperson of the China Zhi Gong Party | |||||||||
| In office 1950–1966 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Li Jishen | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Huang Dingchen | ||||||||
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| Born | 1892 Haifeng County, Guangdong, China | ||||||||
| Died | 10 December 1970 (aged 77–78) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Political party | China Zhi Gong Party | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Chuo University | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 陈其尤 | ||||||||
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Chen Qiyou (Chinese: 陈其尤; pinyin: Chén Qíyóu, 1892 – 10 December 1970) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician with the China Zhi Gong Party. Born to a prominent family in Haifeng County, he became interested in efforts to overthrow the Qing dynasty as a teenager and joined the Tongmenghui in 1911. He participated in the Second Guangzhou Uprising and the assassination of Tartar-General Fengshan, then left for Japan to study politics and economics. In 1917, after returning to China and spending a year with the Ministry of Finance, he joined Sun Yat-sen's Constitutional Protection Junta as the secretary to General Chen Jiongming. In 1931, Chen joined the China Zhi Gong Party (ZG), with whom he served in various capacities for the rest of his life.
Chen was appointed to Hong Kong as a representative of the Kuomintang in 1937, but after he was imprisoned by the party, he began to write extensively against it and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Following the end of the Second World War, Chen urged the ZG to support the Chinese Communist Party in its efforts to create a new Chinese government. He thereafter attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1949, shortly thereafter taking a leadership role in the ZG. In the latter capacity, he was a member of the standing committees of the second, third, and fourth National People's Congresses.