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
- Zhou Enlai 周恩来 The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy
- Wang Shiwei 王实味 The writer whose “Wild Lilies” criticised privilege at Yan’an and made him the rectification movement’s first victim
- Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee Boggs From first translator of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts to philosopher of Detroit's revolution
- Wei Jingsheng 魏京生 The electrician who pasted “The Fifth Modernisation” on Democracy Wall, deported after eighteen years in prison