Duan Boyu

Duan Boyu

Duan Boyu (July 9, 1904 - September 23, 1998) was a former major general of Chiang Kai Shek's Chamberlain, Gao Shen, who secretly joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. After he was transferred to Chongqing in 1939, Zhou En came to talk to him, asked him to lurk in the Kuomintang army for a long time, and instructed him to keep in touch with the comrades of the underground party. Later, Duan Boyu entered the seventh special class of Kuomintang army University. After graduation, he was recommended by his younger brother Duan Zhongyu to work in Chiang Kai Shek's Chamberlain.

Personage introduction

Duan Boyu was born on July 9, 1904. Hebei Lixian people, formerly known as Duan Yu, the word huoru. He graduated from the seventh special class of Hebei University.

In July 1930, after graduating from University, he cooperated with friends to open Yihe clinic in Taiyuan.

In November 1934, he served as the captain of the 725th Regiment (commander sun Dingchao) of the 142nd division (division commander Li Xingcun).

In September 1936, he was dismissed from his post for propagating the Anti Japanese thought and was laid off in Baoding.

In August 1937, he joined the Hebei People's Army (general commander Zhang yinwu) as a propagandist. In November, he served as a military doctor of the 32nd Army (commander Shang Zhen) and sent cadre training classes to serve.

In June 1938, he joined the fourth phase of Yan'an Anti Japanese military and Political University. He returned to the Ministry in July. He joined the Communist Party of China in August. In December, due to the dissolution of the cadre training class, he was laid off in Chongqing.

In March 1939, he served as the inspector of the commander of the field Party and government committee (Chairman Jiang Zhongzheng) of the Military Commission.

In January 1943, after the abolition of the Ministry, he applied for the Army University. In October, he was admitted to the seventh special class of Army University as a graduate of Hebei military and political school.

In March 1946, after graduating from the National University of Lu, he was appointed as the general staff officer of the military affairs bureau (director Yu Jishi) of the military service department of the national government (commander Shang Zhen). He successively assigned the fourth section and the second section to serve.

In June 1947, he also served as inspector of the field Liaison Group (leader pan Youqiang) of the Ministry of defense. At the end of the month, Li Jue, leader of the first field inspection group, who is also chairman of the national government, was appointed as inspector.

In May 1948, he was promoted to major general senior staff officer of the Third Bureau of the presidential palace.

On March 11, 1949, after resigning from his post, he went to Shanghai to engage in underground work of the Communist Party of China and served as a member of the Shanghai Bureau of the Communist Party of China's reactionary Committee. He successively instigated the uprising of the first regiment of the training regiment of the reserve cadre bureau, the third regiment of the paratroopers, the Jiangsu provincial security corps, and the second regiment of the logistics and automobile Corps. On May 12, he welcomed the liberation in Shanghai. In October, he served as a staff member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (concurrently Minister Zhou Enlai) of the Government Affairs Council (Premier Zhou Enlai). In November, he joined the military officer class of MII for training.

In May 1950, he was appointed director of the administrative department of the Ministry of foreign affairs and Secretary of the Party branch.

In July 1953, he was transferred to Deputy Secretary General and Party branch secretary of the Chinese people's Institute of Foreign Affairs (president Zhang Xiruo).

In September 1956, he was admitted to the senior Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

In July 1958, after graduating from the Party school, he was appointed as a lecturer in the philosophy teaching and research section of the senior Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

In April 1961, he was transferred to Secretary of the Party branch of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Deputy Secretary General of the Asian and African society.

In August 1964, he was transferred to the Party branch secretary of the natural science history research office.

In June 1983, he was elected member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (chairman Deng Yingchao).

In March 1986, he was elected as director and consultant of China Asian African society

He retired in October 1987.

He died in Beijing on September 23, 1998.

Life of the characters

Duan Boyu was born in 1904 in mengchang village, Li County, Hebei Province. There is a tomb in the village called Qi Wang tomb. It is said that it is the tomb of mengchang king. Gaoyang in the north is the hometown of sun Chengzong, a famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty. Boye in the south is the hometown of Yan Yuan, the founder of Sikun school. Therefore, Duan Boyu was influenced by patriotism in his childhood. His father Duan Yunfeng followed Sun Yat sen in his early years and was a member of the alliance. He was a classmate with Chiang Kai Shek when he was in Baoding Yaocun military school. After the revolution of 1911, under the call of "reorganizing the army, managing military affairs, saving the nation from subjugation and striving for survival", he was admitted to the fourth phase of the Army University. He was a classmate with Li Jishen and Xu Yongchang. After graduation, he taught in Baoding military academy. Therefore, many people went out of the Kuomintang army.

Influenced by his father, Duan Boyu was radical in his youth. In 1919, when he was studying in Tianjin middle school, he took part in the May 4th movement. In 1923, he was admitted to Hebei University in Baoding to study medicine. However, learning medicine is not his wish. He has been determined to be a soldier since he was a child. When he learned from the newspaper about the enrollment of the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy, he was eager to apply for the examination. However, his father, who was a soldier, firmly opposed it. He thought that joining the army in this turbulent era was a dead end, and it was better to study medicine.

During his study in Hebei University, he extensively read such Marxist Leninist books as capital, state and revolution, Manifesto of the Communist Party, and initially accepted the influence and Enlightenment of Marxism. He was expelled from the University for participating in the student movement for many times. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he went to Taihang mountain to search for the Eighth Route Army, failed, and then went south with the 32nd army of the Kuomintang.

In the spring of 1938, he went to Yan'an alone to participate in the study of the Anti Japanese university and listened to the report on protracted war made by Mao Zedong. In early August, he returned to his former army and was introduced by Wang Xinggang, a secret member of the Communist Party of China, to join the Communist Party of China. After the "Changsha Fire", he was sent to Chongqing by Nanchang Office of the Eighth Route Army to contact Zhou Enlai's Secretary Zhou Yi. Through his father's relationship, he became an inspector in the field Party and government committee of the Kuomintang military commission led by Li Jishen.

In 1939, he was received by Zhou Enlai in Chongqing. Zhou Enlai asked him to prepare for a long-term ideological lurking in the Kuomintang army, and instructed him to work in the Kuomintang ruled areas with many difficulties. In difficult circumstances, he should strive for the favorable side and make it a reality. Shortly after that, as Zhou Yi was arrested and killed by the enemy, he lost contact with the party organization.

In order to work better in the Kuomintang army, Duan Boyu was admitted to the seventh special class of the Army University in October 1943. At that time, many kinds of activities were popular in the Army University, such as student union, fellow townspeople's Association, fraternity, dinner party and so on. Duan Boyu made use of these activities to make friends with a group of people who were dissatisfied with the Kuomintang's negative resistance against Japan and the Communist Party, and the bureaucratic corruption and corruption, such as Jia Yibin, Liu Nongyao, song Jianren, song Guanglie and so on. At the age of 29, Jia Yibin was a major general. Although he was not directly related to Huangpu, he served as a commander in chief in the early days of the Anti Japanese War and led the army to fight actively. Liu Nong, a subordinate of Du Yuming, once served as the commander of the communication battalion of the expeditionary middle school. He fought in Myanmar. Because he was good at studying the terrain and climate of Myanmar, his troops were reduced very little, which ensured the operational needs of the expeditionary headquarters. He was born in the Kuomintang armored vehicle forces, familiar with combat vehicles, vehicles, communications and other modern combat technology. He was very dissatisfied with the KMT, especially the four big families, who carved up and monopolized the national economy. He had a strong sense of democracy and was determined to resist Japan. Song Guanglie had contact with the Communist Party when he was a student in Baoding Second Normal University, and participated in the Anti Japanese coalition led by Feng Yuxiang in Chabei. Major general song Jianren was also concerned about the national rejuvenation, the future and destiny of the country. Duan Boyu often talked with them about study and politics, and established his feelings, which laid the foundation for his future work.

After more than two years of study, in the spring of 1946, Duan Boyu and the students of the special class will officially graduate. At this turning point in his life, his second younger brother Duan Zhongyu's suggestion played a very important role in his later life.

Duan Zhongyu, 10 years younger than Duan Boyu, entered the ninth phase of the Central Army Academy in November 1930, graduated in 1934, and was admitted to the 17th phase of the Army University in 1939. After graduating in 1942, Duan Zhongyu stayed in the academy as an instructor. In 1944, he joined India with the expeditionary army and served as the section chief and section chief of the military affairs department of the general command in India. In the same year, he returned to China and served as a colonel in Chiang Kai Shek's Chamberlain's office.

Once, when the two brothers had a conversation, Duan Zhongyu asked his elder brother where he was going after graduation. Duan Boyu proposed that he wanted to go back to his hometown in Hebei, where he was familiar with both people and land, so that he could carry out his work. Duan Zhongyu suggested that he go to the Chamberlain of the presidential palace, because it is the highest military organ of the Kuomintang and has many superior conditions. He can use his strong points to carry out his work. Considering that if he could win this favorable position, he could better work for the party, Duan Boyu agreed with his younger brother's proposal.

At the beginning of 1946, Duan Zhongyu took the opportunity of his transfer to the Chinese delegation of the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations Security Council to recommend to Yu Jishi, the bodyguard chief, that Duan Boyu should replace him. He said: "my elder brother Duan Boyu is suitable for this job. He is the seventh student of the special class of the Army University, ranking seventh among more than 130 students. He is in the rank of colonel and is about to graduate. He is also an old college student. He is good at foreign language, Chinese writing and organization." At that time, Yu Jishi was studying in the general class of the Army University. Hearing Duan Zhongyu say so, he was very satisfied with Duan Boyu's background, education background, achievements and other aspects, so he reported Duan Boyu's situation to Chiang Kai Shek.

On March 10 of that year, the seventh special class of the Army University held a graduation ceremony in Chongqing. In the name of president, Chiang Kai Shek led defense minister he Yingqin, Military Order Minister Xu Yongchang and senior generals in Chongqing to preside over the ceremony in person. After his speech, Chiang Kai Shek reviewed each student of the seventh special class one by one. When he came up to Duan Boyu, he looked at him carefully. At the end of the ceremony, a message was sent that the headmaster Chiang Kai Shek had summoned Duan Boyu.

Chiang Kai Shek has always been very generous and generous in front of his students

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