dc.description.abstract | Liu Bocheng was born in a poor family. He participated in the revolutions led by Dr. Sun Yet Sen at the end of Qing Dynasty. In 1926, he joined the Communist Party of China, and began his revolutions with communists. After the Communist Party of China established the government in Mainland China, Liu Bocheng was awarded as Marshal in 1955. There were ten marshals in the Communist Party of China and Liu was the forth.
Among the ten marshals, Liu Bocheng was the first who had attended the complete programs of military training in Soviet Russia. But he went back to China in order to help the Communist Party on revolutions, and had the chance to demonstrate his talent in military. He devoted himself not only to military strategies but also military education. Therefore, he was referred to as the Sun Wu in the Communist Party of China.
Besides, he had worked with Deng Xiaoping for 13 years, which led to the deep bond between the two men. Even though both of them had helped Mao Zedong quite a lot during the Civil War and won many victories, Liu Bocheng was technically deprived the power in the army by Mao after the war. Being as compliant as Liu, he knew it was time to resign and volunteered to start military academy. He founded Nan Jing Military College all by himself, and went through much hardship to nurture many talented people with modern military training for the Communist Party of China.
Either during the Civil War, or while running the military college, Liu was quite esteemed and well-thought-of in the army. However, Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai and Lin Biao worked together to take him down during the movement of anti-dogmatism in the army, so he resigned his commission according to his free will in order to protect himself. But he still couldn’t avoid the fate of being criticized and denounced. Liu Bocheng was the first who was under criticizing and denouncing among the ten Marshals, and had never been promoted to any position ever since then. | en_US |