Editing Fu Daqing (section)

{{Refimprove|date=August 2008}}
'''Fu Daqing''' ({{zh|s=傅大庆 |t=付大慶 |p=Fù Dàqìng |first=t}}), alias '''Fu Dajing''' ({{zh|t=符大經 |s=符大经 |p=Fú Dàjīng |first=t |links=no}}), was a [[Chinese Communist]] propagandist, translator and organiser who worked for the Communist cause before his capture and execution by the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] during [[World War II]]. He is also the father of [[Dai Qing]] ({{lang|zh-hant|戴晴}}), a leading activist. 

Fu Daqing was born in 1900 in [[Linchuan]], [[Jiangxi]] province. Having lost his father at an early age, the young Daqing was brought up by his mother, a school teacher. After graduating from a [[missionary]]-run high school with fluency in [[English language|English]], he travelled to [[Shanghai]] to continue his education. In Shanghai, he read the newspaper ''[[New Youth]]'' and met [[Chen Duxiu]], co-founder of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP). Whilst learning [[Russian language|Russian]] at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Fu joined the Socialist Youth Brigade of China in 1920.{{cn|date=August 2024}} 

The next year he travelled by sea to study at the Eastern University in [[Moscow]] with [[Liu Shaoqi]] and others.<ref>{{cite book|title=The River Dragon Has Come!|author=Dai Qing, Qing Dai, John Thibodeau, Philip B. Williams, Probe International, International Rivers Network, Ming Yi. Translated by Ming Yi|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year=1998|isbn=0-7656-0206-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780765602053}}</ref> In Moscow Fu took the Russian name Federov and later joined the CCP. In the summer of 1924, after returning from Moscow, Fu worked for [[Sun Yatsen]]'s government in Guangdong as a translator for the Soviet agent [[Mikhail Borodin]]. He was active at the [[Whampoa Military Academy]] and first participated in military operations in 1925. The following year Fu joined the [[Northern Expedition (1926–1927)|Northern Expedition]]. After the abortive [[Nanchang Uprising]], Fu Daqing returned to his native Linchuan to engage in propaganda work among the people. In December 1927, he participated in a failed Communist uprising in [[Guangzhou]], after which he fled to [[Hong Kong]]. Fu went on to visit [[Singapore]], [[Thailand]], [[Indonesia]], [[Burma]] and the [[Philippines]]. On 29 April 1930 Fu Daqing co-founded the [[Nanyang Communist Party|South Seas Communist Party]] (predecessor to the Communist parties of Indochina, Malaya and Siam) with [[Ho Chi Minh]] and eighteen others. Later he became a propaganda officer for the party, co-editing ''The Malayan Worker''. The [[United Kingdom|British]] authorities had him arrested and deported back to China, where he was imprisoned firstly at Guangzhou and then at Shanghai by the [[Kuomintang]].{{cn|date=August 2024}} 

At the outbreak of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], he was released from gaol. Fu Daqing made his way to [[Wuhan]] where he worked for the Communist [[Eighth Route Army]]. After the fall of Wuhuan in 1938 he moved to [[Guiyang]] and [[Guilin]] to engage in anti-Japanese propaganda. Later he moved to [[Yan'an]], where he translated [[Carl von Clausewitz]]'s classic treatise ''[[On War]]'' into Chinese, receiving praise from CCP commanders [[Zhu De]] and [[Ye Jianying]]. In 1940 Fu Daqing met Yang Jie ({{lang|zh-hant|楊潔}}), a female colleague in [[Chongqing]], and the two began living together. The couple married on New Year's Day 1941. In June 1941 he was dispatched by the Central Committee to [[Beiping]] to engage in propaganda activities and underground communication with the [[Comintern]]. Two months later, Yang Jie gave birth to a daughter, Dai Qing. The family was reunited at the end of the year in Beiping.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

On July 23, 1944, both Fu and his wife were captured by the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. He was executed sometime before the end of [[World War II]]. The CCP only learned of this from captured Japanese archives. Having held no official position in the CCP, Fu Daqing is best remembered for his expertise in linguistics. He spoke English, Russian, [[Malay language|Malay]] as well as a number of Chinese dialects, including [[Cantonese]] and Hainanese. Fu's daughter Dai Qing was later adopted by his good friend Ye Jianying.{{cn|date=August 2024}}