Liberal political scientist of “On Human Rights”; Democratic League vice-chairman branded “China’s number two rightist”
From Anfu, Jiangxi, he was a student leader of the May Fourth Movement and studied political science at Wisconsin, Columbia and the London School of Economics. In 1929 he published “On Human Rights” in the Crescent Moon, and in 1930 he was arrested for opposing Kuomintang one-party rule. As an editorial writer for the Tianjin Yi Shi Bao he argued for resistance to Japan, and he became an early leader of the China Democratic League. After 1949 he was League vice-chairman, minister of the forest industry and a member of the NPC Standing Committee. On 22 May 1957 he proposed a committee to review the errors of the Three-anti, Five-anti and Sufan campaigns, was attacked as half of the “Zhang–Luo alliance” and became “China’s number two rightist”; in January 1958 he lost his ministry and NPC seat. He died of heart disease in 1965 and was never corrected.
Also known as: Lo Lung-chi
Activities and affiliations
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1928–1937
Scholarship and theory
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1941–1958
Political and party leadership
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1949–1958
People’s Republic of China state institutionsMinister of the Forest Industry
Government and administration
Career Timeline
- 1919Student leader in the May Fourth Movement at Tsinghua School
- 1921Studied in the US and Britain; doctorate in political science at the LSE
- 1929Published “On Human Rights” in the Crescent Moon
- 1930Arrested for opposing Kuomintang one-party rule
- 1932–1937Editorial writer of the Yi Shi Bao, Tianjin; professor of politics at Nankai
- 1949Attended the first CPPCC plenary session for the Democratic League
- 1949–1958Vice-chairman of the Democratic League; minister of the forest industry
- 1957Proposed a redress committee; declared China’s number two rightist
- 1958Removed as League vice-chairman, minister and NPC deputy