People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Sun Yat-sen 孙中山 Founding father of the Republic of China who framed the Three Principles of the People and the first united front
- Wang Jingwei 汪精卫 Sun Yat-sen’s heir and Kuomintang left leader who ended as head of the Japanese-sponsored Nanjing regime
- Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 Nationalist leader who combined resistance to Japan with anti-communist rule
- Mao Zedong 毛泽东 He rewrote the grammar of revolution for a peasant country
- 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
- Zhang Guotao 张国焘 Chair of the founding congress who split with Mao on the Long March and defected to the Nationalists