She was the only woman of the "Seven Gentlemen", the first minister of justice of New China, and in her later years she reached the rank of vice state
In November 1936, the Nationalist government arrested shen junru, Zhang Naiqi, Zou Taofen, Li Gongpu, Sha Qianli, Wang Zaoshi, Shi Liang, and other leaders of the National Salvation Congress, and then with the assistance of various parties and international friends, they were finally released from prison, which is known as the "Seven Gentlemen Incident".
If anyone had the heart to pay attention, only one of the seven people was a woman, and this person had achieved a very high level after the founding of the People's Republic of China, not only the first minister of justice in New China, but also a leading cadre at the vice-state level, she was Shi Liang.
In that era, it was very remarkable that women could achieve this, and Shi Liang was able to achieve all this, and the first thing to thank was his father.
Shi Liang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1900, in the era of "women without talent is morality", few girls entered private schools, her father taught her to read at home, how widely she saw, her open-minded father also told her a lot of big truths, so that she sprouted national consciousness and patriotic feelings from an early age, after the establishment of the Republic of China, Shi Liang, who was 14 years old, was admitted to the local women's normal school with excellent results.
1922 was an important year in her life path, because this year she was admitted to Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, and her brilliant achievements many years later would begin from this step.
A few years later, her path to school took some turns.
In the May Fourth Patriotic Movement that year, Shi Liang was the vice president of the local student federation, leading students to march and speak in the streets, which was very leadership. During the period of study at Shanghai National Chengchi University, its principal only valued money but did not care about the quality of teaching, and the students and the principal theory ended with four classmates being expelled, at this time Shi Liang took out the style of the year, a wording to refute the principal to the poor, and later she led more than 100 students to form a school protection group.
At this time, Shanghai Law University had just been established, shi liang and all the members of the school protection group, all joined the university, and the president Dong Kang was a celebrity in the judicial circles during the Republic of China, and the lucky Shi Liang was taught by Dong Kang and became his proud protégé.
Although Shi Liang excelled in her studies, because Shanghai Law University was a private university and could not obtain a lawyer's certificate, Shi Liang, who had just graduated, was arranged to work in the General Political Department, and as a righteous person, she was incompatible with her superiors, and later she was framed and imprisoned.
Later, after she became a lawyer, she participated in many cases of rescuing underground party members of our party and helped many comrades to win freedom.
In 1936, the Salvation Congress was established, Shi Liang was a member of an important organization, and soon she came to Nanjing as a representative to petition for anti-Japanese national salvation propaganda, but she did not expect that she and several leaders of the Salvation Congress were arrested and imprisoned, as the only woman among them, she insisted on her principles, never bowed to the enemy, and with the assistance of people of various parties and international friends Einstein and Dewey, they were finally rescued from prison.
Since then, Shi Liang has been more convinced that cooperation with our party is correct.
After the founding of New China, she was invited to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, which was the most proud moment of her life, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she served as the first minister of justice, participated in the formulation of the Marriage Law, a few years later the Ministry of Justice was abolished, she was transferred to the work of the People's Congress, and a few years later became vice chairman and vice-state-level cadres.
In order to express the trust and importance of the motherland to her, she donated her property many times, and Shi Liang died in Beijing on September 6, 1985, at this time her property and property had all been donated to the state, leaving no inheritance to her relatives.