When I met Cai Chang in 1937, she was the head of the women's department of the entire government agency

　When I met Cai Chang in 1937, she was the head of the Women's Department of the entire government agency and was fully responsible for delegating work and authority to women.

After studying in Paris and Moscow, she became one of the leading members of the Kuomintang, and in 1926, at the age of twenty-six during the Northern Expedition, she was appointed as the first woman to join the General Political Department of the Kuomintang.

Two years later, she became a delegate to the Comintern. During and after the War of Resistance Against Japan, she led the women's work of the Communist Party and became president of the Women's Federation of the Liberated Areas.

She organized the first National Women's Congress, which had never been held before in China, which opened on March 24 and closed on April 3, 1949, at which she was elected president of the then-established All-China Women's Federation, which claimed to have more than 20 million members.

She was the only female representative elected to a twenty-one-member Standing Committee, which was preparing for the Political Consultative Conference of 21 September 1949, and she became one of the seven Communists who participated in the body. At that meeting, she was elected to the Bureau of eighty-nine members.

This presidium had only a few female deputies, like Mrs. Sun Yat-sen. He was elected to the Council of Fifty-eight members, including Mrs. Zhou Enlai and Mrs. Sun Yat-sen, the only two women commissioners. Earlier in 1949, she visited Prague and attended a peace conference.

　　From 1 to 7 December, she chaired the Asian Women's Conference in Beijing, which was attended by representatives from twenty-four countries and by Miss Paul Robertson of the United States.

　　From 1948 to 1953, she was the head of the Women's Work Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and a member of the Standing Committee of the General Trade Unions, before that. She was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1945 and served as first secretary of the Central Working Committee on Women. From 1949 to 1954, she was a deputy to Hunan and was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

　　Who's Who in Asia says that sometime after 1935, she went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment, but I don't know when that might be.

　　Cai Chang married Li Fuchun. Born around 1898, Li Fuchun joined the Communist Party in France in 1922. During the blockade of communist areas, he led the mass production movement in 1941. He was also the host of the first five-year plan.

In 1953, he visited Moscow. He was elected to the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 1956 and has served in the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1958 onwards.

　　The prestige of communists in China stems in large part from the fact that some communists achieved happy and successful marriages, such as Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, and the union of Cai Chang and her husband was praised.

Cai Chang was married to Li Fuchun in France, who was very calm, gentlemanly, quite thin and approachable.

For some time after 1936, he served as chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government, and in 1946 he served as director of the political department of all communist-led armies in the northeast. In 1949, he was elected as one of the leaders of the new government in the northeast and soon became vice premier under the leadership of Zhou Enlai.

He was clearly opposed to the government leader Gao Gang. Gao Gang was dismissed from his post, and later according to press reports, Gao Gang committed suicide.

　　Cai Chang's personal experience shows that Chinese Communist Party leaders have unbelievable vitality.

　　I was born in 1900 in Xiangxiang County, Hunan. My family was a small landowner, but by the time I was born it was bankrupt. My father worked as a clerk in the Shanghai National Arsenal established at the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, the money he earns cannot feed his home in Hunan, and none of his children can go to school. I am the youngest child in the family and I have two older brothers and two older sisters. My mother had to sell her dowry to support her children in school. She was born into a hunan aristocratic family.

Her grandfather was a relative of the famous Zeng Guofan.

My grandfather served as a battalion commander under Zeng Guofan during the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion.

　　In my childhood, my life was hard because my father was a big bad guy and we kids hated him for abandoning our mother.

However, my mother was an amazing woman of her time. She was in her fifties when the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, but the influence of the Xinhai Revolution made her determined not only to get her children to school, but also to go to school herself. She sold all the gold and silver ancestral belongings in her clothes and dowry so that she could have a little money in her hands so that our four children could go to school for a year.

At this time, the cost of attending school is low. Accommodation and boarding expenses have been abolished, and only the book fee is paid. My mother and my brothers Choi and Sen went to the upper grades of elementary school, and I went to the lower grades. My sister learned embroidery and sewing.

　　After a year of school, we had no money. My eldest sister is a thirty-year-old widow who has a daughter. She was married before our family went bankrupt, so she had her own dowry. My eldest sister was very dissatisfied with her husband's family. Despite their obstruction, she sold her dowry and supported us in school.

　　My mother and my two older sisters had both wrapped their feet, but my feet had never been wrapped because by the time of my childhood, the habit of foot binding had improved.