Lin Boqu
Lin Boqu (1886-1960) was born in Shuijing Township, Linli County of Changde City. In 1902, he was admitted to the Xilu Teachers College of Hunan where he read some revolutionary books and met Xiong Xiling who had a deep impact on his worldview. In 1903, Lin ranked 1st on a list of selected students who would get an opportunity to further their academic learning in Hirofumi College in Japan. During his stay in Japan, he came to know Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Chen Tianhua, Liao Zhongkai and many other democratic and revolutionary fighters. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary League in Tokyo. In November 1905, returned to his home and he secretly took part in the anti-Qing revolutionary movement.
On July 8th, 1914, Lin and his brother Lin Xiumei took part in the Chinese Revolutionary Party’s inaugural meeting which was held in Tokyo.
On March 20th, 1926, Chiang Kai-shek plotted the Zhongshan Warship Incident. Lin resigned from the KMT Central Committee and joined the National Revolutionary Army, becoming the Special Branch Director of the Sixth Army Party.
On July 15th , 1927, The Government of the Republic of China was restructured. Lin went to Jiangxi Province to participate in the Nanchang Uprising as Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee and the Finance Committee. After the failure of this uprising, he was sent by the CPC to Moscow to study China’s land problem.
In the winter of 1933, Lin returned to China from VlaPostok. In March 1934, he entered the Central Soviet Area in Jiangxi Province, and then he began to take charge of the Chinese Soviet Government as the national Economy Minister and Finance Minister.
In April 1945, he was elected a member of the Central Political Bureau in the Seventh Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Lin was elected Secretary-General of the Government and then vice chairman of the Committee.
From 1957-1959, he went to Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu Provinces and made more than 10 inspections. On May 29th, 1960, Lin died in Beijing at the age of 74.
Lin was a passionate poet, whose works have been highly praised and appreciated by Chen Yi an important CPC leader. Lin’s works like Lin Boqu Collection and Comrade Lin Boqu Poems Selection were published by the CPC Literature Research Centre, and his work The Dream of Going Back Home was chosen to be inscribed on Changde Poem-engraved Wall.
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