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Chinese revolutionary and politician who was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms, which earned him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China". Wikipedia

Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist who rose to power as the chief interpreter of Maoism (or "Mao Zedong Thought") in the first 20 years of the People's Republic of China. Chen became a close associate of Mao Zedong in Yan'an, during the late 1930s, drafting speeches and theoretical essays and directing propaganda. Wikipedia

Prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959. Born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a manual laborer. Wikipedia

Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army. Known as the 'half' of the "Three and A Half" Strategists of China in modern history. Wikipedia

Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist. Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee from 1954 to 1959, First Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1956 to 1966 and Chairman of the People's Republic of China, the de jure head of state, from 1959 to 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China. Wikipedia

Timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. Wikipedia