People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄 Sun Yat-sen’s widow who stayed with the Kuomintang left and became a vice-chair of the People’s Republic
- Kim San 김산 Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang
- Wang Shiwei 王实味 The writer whose “Wild Lilies” criticised privilege at Yan’an and made him the rectification movement’s first victim