Gong Pusheng

Gong Pusheng
龚普生
Gong Pusheng
BornSeptember 1913
Shanghai
Died4 August 2007(2007-08-04) (aged 93)
Beijing
NationalityChinese
OccupationDiplomat
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseZhang Hanfu (1905–1972)
Parents
RelativesGong Peng (sister)
Xu Wanqiuc (sister)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese龚普生
Traditional Chinese龔普生
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGōng Pǔshēng
In this Chinese name, the family name is Gong.

Gong Pusheng (龚普生) or Wade–Giles: Kung Pu-sheng (September 1913 – 4 August 2007) was a Chinese revolutionary activist and diplomat.[1]

Biography

Gong Pusheng was born in September 1913 in Shanghai.[2] Her father, Gong Zhenzhou, held several positions in the Sun Yat-sen’s government.[3] Her sister, Gong Peng, was also an activist and government official. In Shanghai she studied at St. Mary 's Episcopalian Girls' School, and continued her higher education at Yenching University.[4][5]

She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938.[6] On the advice of Zhou Enlai, she later attended Columbia University, in New York, where she established contacts with prominent people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl Buck, and Paul Robeson.[7][5]

In 1948 she became a member of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations in New York.[3] After the establishment of the People's Republic, she was deputy director in the Foreign Ministry, in charge of International Organization and Conference Department.[8] She became director of the department in 1958. She became the first ambassador from the Peoples Republic to Ireland in August 1980.[7][9]She joined Chinese delegations to international conferences and undertook extensive visits abroad.

In 1949 she married Zhang Hanfu (1905 – 1972), also a senior diplomat.[7] Her sister Gong Peng also served in the Foreign Ministry.[1]

She died in Beijing on 4 August 2007.

Gong Pusheng is played by Lang Yueting in the film The Volunteers: To the War, in which she is depicted as a member the first delegation from the People's Republic of China to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in November 1950. Also in this delegation, headed by Wu Xiuquan, was her brother-in-law, Qiao Guanhua.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Oxon: Routledge. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ^ Bartke, Wolfgang (18 June 2012). Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits. Beijing: Walter de Gruyter. p. 116. ISBN 978-3-110-96823-1. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b Faligot, Roger (2019). Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-787-38096-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ^ Wong, Wai Ching Angela (17 July 2018). Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-9-888-45592-8. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ a b Lee 2016, p. 180.
  6. ^ Zheng, Yangwen (2017). Sinicizing Christianity. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. p. 69. ISBN 978-9-004-33038-2. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Lary, Diana (5 March 2015). China's Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  8. ^ Lee 2016, p. 181.
  9. ^ Bartke 2012, p. 117.
  10. ^ Elley, Derek (5 November 2023). "Review: The Volunteers: To the War (2023)". Sino-Cinema. WordPress. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
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