An Ziwen

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An Ziwen
安子文
Head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
November 1956 – August 1966
Preceded byHe Guoqiang
Succeeded byGuo Yufeng
Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
In office
November 1949 – 31 March 1955
Personal details
Born25 September 1909
Zizhou, Shaanxi
Died25 June 1980(1980-06-25) (aged 70)
Political partyChinese Communist Party

An Ziwen (Chinese: 安子文; pinyin: Ān Zǐwén; 25 September 1909 – 25 June 1980), born as An Zhihan (安之瀚), was a Chinese politician and member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He served as minister of the CCP Central Committee Organization Department, the Central People's Government Minister of Personnel, deputy secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, among other roles. He authored the book "Revolutionary successors training is a strategic task of the party".

Biography[edit]

An was born in September 1909 in Zizhou County, Shaanxi province. In 1925, he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League, and in 1927 was inducted into the Chinese Communist Party. He participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. In 1949, An was appointed as head of the Personnel Ministry, and was elected as a CPPCC Standing Committee member. He served as vice minister of the Central Organization Department, and was appointed as the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and deputy secretary. In 1956, at the Eighth CCP National Congress, he was elected as head of the CCP Central Organization Department.

In his 1964 article Fostering Revolutionary Successors as a Strategic Task for the Party, An wrote about the threat posed by the peaceful evolution theory propounded by John Foster Dulles.[1] In particular, An focused on Dulles's statement at an October 28, 1958 press conference that peaceful evolution was "absolutely possible in a few hundred years, but perhaps just a matter of a few decades."[1]

In 1966, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted as one of the 61 Renegades and expelled from his posts. In 1978 under Deng Xiaoping, he was rehabilitated and appointed as vice president of the Central Party School, the latter co-opted to the Central Committee. On 25 June 1980, he died in Beijing.

Family[edit]

An Ziwen married Liu Jingxiong, come from Shanxi province. They have three children. Specific information are as follows:[2]

Wife[edit]

Liu Jingxiong (刘竞雄), daughter of Chinese politician and official Liu Shaobai

Children[edit]

Brothers[edit]

An Zhiwen (安志文), third brother of An ziwen and alternate delegate of 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party[3]

Nephew[edit]

An Jiaoju (安鲛驹), general of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Cai, Xiang; 蔡翔 (2016). Revolution and its narratives : China's socialist literary and cultural imaginaries (1949-1966). Rebecca E. Karl, Xueping Zhong, 钟雪萍. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-8223-7461-9. OCLC 932368688.
  2. ^ "子洲名人榜 安子文" [Notable people of Zizhou: An Ziwen]. Government of Zizhou, Yulin. 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  3. ^ "中共十二大候补委员名单" [List of alternate delegates in 12th national congress of CPC]. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
Preceded by
None
Head of the Central People's Government Personnel Ministry
1950–1954
Succeeded by
None
Preceded by Head of the CCP Central Organization Department
1956–1966
Succeeded by
Guo Yufeng in 1975