Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
中国共产党
Zhōng guó Gòng chǎn dǎng
Communist Party of China
中共中央
Zhōng Gòng Zhōng yāng
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會|中国共产党中央委员会[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3 Zhong1 yang1 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]
共青团
Gòng qīng tuán
the Communist Youth League, abbr. for 共產主義青年團|共产主义青年团[Gong4 chan3 zhu3 yi4 Qing1 nian2 tuan2]
毛主席
Máo Zhǔ xí
Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 / (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader
邓小平理论
Dèng Xiǎo píng Lǐ lùn
Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
总书记
zǒng shū ji
general secretary (of the Communist Party)
入党
rù dǎng
to join a political party (esp. the Communist Party)
党内
dǎng nèi
within the party (esp. Chinese communist party)
军委
jūn wěi
Military Commission of the Communist Party Central Committee
八路军
Bā lù jūn
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
三中全会
Sān Zhōng Quán huì
third plenum of a national congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
刘少奇
Liú Shào qí
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
党代会
dǎng dài huì
party congress (of the Communist Party of China)
彭德怀
Péng Dé huái
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972
陈云
Chén Yún
Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist
贺龙
Hè Lóng
He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
王明
Wáng Míng
Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956
陈独秀
Chén Dú xiù
Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921
入团
rù tuán
to enroll in the Communist Youth League
政治委员
zhèng zhì wěi yuán
political commissar (during Russian and Chinese communist revolutions)
支书
zhī shū
branch secretary / secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League / abbr. for 支部書記|支部书记
李大钊
Lǐ Dà zhāo
Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party
邓颖超
Dèng Yǐng chāo
Deng Yingchao (1904-1992), Chinese communist leader, wife of Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来
Otto Braun (1900-1974), Comintern adviser to the Chinese communist party 1932-1939
博古
Bó Gǔ
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
国共两党
Guó Gòng liǎng dǎng
Guomindang 國民黨|国民党[Guo2 min2 dang3] and Chinese Communist Party 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3]
叶挺
Yè Tǐng
Ye Ting (1896-1946), communist military leader
国共合作
guó gòng hé zuò
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
张国焘
Zhāng Guó tāo
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938
贫下中农
pín xià zhōng nóng
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
princelings, descendants of senior communist officials (PRC)
罗荣桓
Luó Róng huán
Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), Chinese communist military leader
少年先锋队
Shào nián Xiān fēng duì
Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League) / abbr. to 少先隊|少先队
赵紫阳
Zhào Zǐ yáng
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then
项英
Xiàng Yīng
Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍|新四军[Xin1 si4 jun1], killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4]
勃列日涅夫
Bó liè rì niè fū
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
共匪
gòng fěi
communist bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
李富春
Lǐ Fù chūn
Li Fuchun (1900-1975), Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician, served as Vice Premier of the PRC
郭小川
Guō Xiǎo chuān
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
第二世界
dì èr shì jiè
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
赫鲁晓夫
Hè lǔ xiǎo fu
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
边币
biān bì
Border Region currency, issued by the Communist Border Region governments during the War against Japan and the War of Liberation
Guo Moruo (1892-1978), writer, communist party intellectual and cultural apparatchik
南泥湾
Nán ní wān
Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces
尼泊尔共产党
Ní bó ěr Gòng chǎn dǎng
Communist Party of Nepal
农德孟
Nóng Dé Mèng
Nong Duc Manh (1940-), general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party 2001-2011
Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China
人民公社化
rén mín gōng shè huà
collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)
何鲁晓夫
Hé lǔ xiǎo fū
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964 / also written 赫魯曉夫|赫鲁晓夫
共同纲领
gòng tóng gāng lǐng
common program / formal program of the communist party after 1949, that served as interim national plan
共产主义青年团
Gòng chǎn zhǔ yì Qīng nián tuán
the Communist Youth League
共产国际
Gòng chǎn Guó jì
Communist International or Comintern (1919-1943), also known as the Third International 第三國際|第三国际[Di4 san1 Guo2 ji4]
共产党政府
gòng chǎn dǎng zhèng fǔ
the communist party government / the government of China
动物庄园
Dòng wù Zhuāng yuán
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔[Qiao2 zhi4 · / Ao4 wei1 er3] / also translated 動物農場|动物农场[Dong4 wu4 Nong2 chang3]
动物农场
Dòng wù Nóng chǎng
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔[Qiao2 zhi4 · / Ao4 wei1 er3]