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1966 in China
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Events from the year
1966 in
China
.
Incumbents
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
—
Mao Zedong
President of the People's Republic of China
—
Liu Shaoqi
Premier of the People's Republic of China
—
Zhou Enlai
Chairman of the National People's Congress
—
Zhu De
Vice President of the People's Republic of China
—
Soong Ching-ling
and
Dong Biwu
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
—
Lin Biao
Governors
Governor of Anhui Province
—
Huang Yan
Governor of Fujian Province
—
Wei Jinshui
Governor of Gansu Province
—
Deng Baoshan
Governor of Guangdong Province
—
Chen Yu
Governor of Guizhou Province
—
Li Li
Governor of Hebei Province
—
Liu Zihou
Governor of Heilongjiang Province
—
Li Fanwu
Governor of Henan Province
—
Wen Minsheng
Governor of Hubei Province
—
Zhang Tixue
Governor of Hunan Province
—
Cheng Qian
Governor of Jiangsu Province
—
Hui Yuyu
Governor of Jiangxi Province
—
Fang Zhichun
Governor of Jilin Province
—
Li Youwen
Governor of Liaoning Province
—
Huang Oudong
Governor of Qinghai Province
—
Wang Zhao
Governor of Shaanxi Province
—
Li Qiming
(until April),
Li Ruishan
(starting April)
Governor of Shandong Province
—
Bai Rubing
Governor of Shanxi Province
—
Wang Qian
Governor of Sichuan Province
—
Li Dazhang
Governor of Yunnan Province
—
Zhou Xing
Governor of Zhejiang Province
—
Zhou Jianren
Events
16 May Notification
launches the
Cultural Revolution
[
1
]
Beginning of the
Red Guards
movement
Third five-year plan
Births
January 25 —
Gao Hongbo
, football manager
March 16 —
Deng Qingming
, taikonaut
March 19 —
Qin Gang
, 12th
Minister of Foreign Affairs
May 22 —
Wang Xiaoshuai
, film director, screenwriter and occasional actor
July 10 —
Amy Yip
, Hong Kong actress
September 17 —
Liu Boming
, fighter pilot
October 10 —
Bai Ling
, American actress and musician
October 11 —
Zhai Zhigang
, taikonaut
October 24 —
Jing Haipeng
, fighter pilot
December 11 —
Leon Lai
, actor, film director, businessman and
Cantopop singer
Deaths
February 17 —
Chen Shutong
, politician, scholar and administrator who served in governments of the
Qing dynasty
,
Republic of China
and the
People's Republic of China
(b.
1876
)
March 22 —
Ai Siqi
, philosopher and author (b.
1910
)
May 18 —
Deng Tuo
, poet, intellectual and journalist (b.
1912
)
May 23
Demchugdongrub
, Mongol prince (b.
1902
)
Tian Jiaying
, personal secretary of
Mao Zedong
(b.
1922
)
July 12 —
Liangqing
, monk (b.
1895
)
August 4 —
Cao Rulin
, former Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the
Beiyang government
(b.
1877
)
August 24
Lao She
, writer (b.
1899
)
[
2
]
Li Da
,
Chinese Marxist philosopher
(b.
1890
)
August 31 —
Huang Shaohong
, general (b.
1895
)
September 3
Fu Lei
, translator and critic (b.
1908
)
Chen Mengjia
, scholar, poet,
paleographer
and
archaeologist
(b.
1911
)
September 10 —
Yan Huizhu
, opera singer (b.
1919
)
September 19 —
Wan Xiaotang
, politician (b.
1916
)
October 1 —
Zhao Chengshou
, nationalist general (b.
1891
)
October 11 —
Sun Zhiyuan
, politician (b.
1911
)
October 22 —
Li Ming
, banking and investing pioneer (b.
1887
)
November 11 —
Yu Hongzheng
, chemist (b.
1897
)
December 2 —
Bai Chongxi
, nationalist general (b.
1893
)
December 12 —
Wu Yuzhang
, politician and educator (b.
1878
)
December 16 —
Ma Lianliang
,
Peking opera
singer (b.
1901
)
December 26 —
Zhou Xiaozhou
, politician and communist revolutionary (b.
1912
)
See also
1966 in Chinese film
References
↑
Russo, Alessandro (2020).
Cultural Revolution and revolutionary culture
. Durham:
Duke University Press
. p.
148.
ISBN
978-1-4780-1218-4
.
OCLC
1156439609
.
↑
Vohra, Ranbir (1974-10-18),
"Lao She and Modern Chinese Literature"
,
Lao She and the Chinese Revolution
, BRILL, pp.
1–
4,
doi
:
10.1163/9781684171866_002
,
ISBN
9781684171866
, retrieved
2021-11-27
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