Deng Yingchao

Deng Yingchao was the Chairwoman of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference from 1983 to 1988, a member of the Communist Party of China, and the wife of the first Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai.

With ancestry in Guangshan County , Henan, she was born Deng Wenshu in Nanning, Guangxi. Growing up in a povertystricken family, her father died when she was at a young age and her single mother taught and practiced medicine. Deng studied at Beiyang Womens Normal School. Deng participated as a team leader in the May Fourth Movement, where she met Zhou Enlai. They married on August 8, 1925 in Guangzhou. She was a legal witness in the wedding of Ho Chi Minh and Zeng Xueming in 1926.

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