[Eight Route Army Hong Kong Office] Qiao Guanhua
Description:
Born:
28 March 1913
Death:
22 September 1983
Pre-war:
Qiao Guanhua was born in Jiangsu province in 1913 and received modern education in his prefecture. He entered Tsinghua University in 1929 as a student of Philosophy. He then studied Philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University and then in Tübingen, Germany. He then worked as a journalist in South China and contributed regularly to not only pro-Chinese Communist Party papers but also other papers in Hong Kong. In 1938, he went to Hong Kong and expressed his wish to join the Chinese Communist Party to Liao Chengzhi, the CCP representative in Hong Kong. He was accepted. Before the war, Qiao wrote about the international situation in local papers and magazines and also gave lectures. He was sent to Singapore to organize the CCP propaganda effort there, but he was denied entry by the British authority there. In his memoir, he recalled that he still believed the Japanese would attack the Soviet Union as late as 6 December 1941.
Wartime:
When Hong Kong was attacked, he left Kowloon, where he lived, for North Point, where a pro-CCP businessman sheltered him. He survived the battle unscathed and left Hong Kong among the refugees on New Year’s Eve, 1942. He then worked for Zhou Enlai in Chongqing and continued his career as a commentator on international affairs.
Post-war:
After the Second World War, he returned to Hong Kong in 1946 to work in the Xinhua News Agency, essentially the CCP’s office in Hong Kong. He returned to China, now the People’s Republic, after the civil war, and served in various diplomatic posts. During the Cultural Revolution, he was first denounced but later became the Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China from 1974 to 1976.
Born:
28 March 1913
Death:
22 September 1983
Pre-war:
Qiao Guanhua was born in Jiangsu province in 1913 and received modern education in his prefecture. He entered Tsinghua University in 1929 as a student of Philosophy. He then studied Philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University and then in Tübingen, Germany. He then worked as a journalist in South China and contributed regularly to not only pro-Chinese Communist Party papers but also other papers in Hong Kong. In 1938, he went to Hong Kong and expressed his wish to join the Chinese Communist Party to Liao Chengzhi, the CCP representative in Hong Kong. He was accepted. Before the war, Qiao wrote about the international situation in local papers and magazines and also gave lectures. He was sent to Singapore to organize the CCP propaganda effort there, but he was denied entry by the British authority there. In his memoir, he recalled that he still believed the Japanese would attack the Soviet Union as late as 6 December 1941.
Wartime:
When Hong Kong was attacked, he left Kowloon, where he lived, for North Point, where a pro-CCP businessman sheltered him. He survived the battle unscathed and left Hong Kong among the refugees on New Year’s Eve, 1942. He then worked for Zhou Enlai in Chongqing and continued his career as a commentator on international affairs.
Post-war:
After the Second World War, he returned to Hong Kong in 1946 to work in the Xinhua News Agency, essentially the CCP’s office in Hong Kong. He returned to China, now the People’s Republic, after the civil war, and served in various diplomatic posts. During the Cultural Revolution, he was first denounced but later became the Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China from 1974 to 1976.
