Shi Liang

史良1st Minister of JusticeIn office
1 October 1949 – April 1959PremierZhou EnlaiSucceeded byWei WenboVice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's CongressIn office
1 July 1979 – 6 September 1985ChairmanYe Jianying
Peng ZhenVice Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ConferenceIn office
26 February 1978 – 6 June 1983ChairmanDeng XiaopingChairwoman of the China Democratic LeagueIn office
23 October 1979 – 6 September 1985Preceded byYang MingxuanSucceeded byHu Yuzhi Personal detailsBorn(1900-03-27)March 27, 1900
Changzhou, JiangsuDiedSeptember 6, 1985(1985-09-06) (aged 85)CitizenshipQing Empire

Republic of China

People's Republic of ChinaNationalityChinesePolitical partyChina Democratic League

Shi Liang (Chinese: 史良; pinyin: Shǐ Liáng; Wade–Giles: Shih Liang; March 27, 1900 – September 6, 1985) was a prominent lawyer and activist of the Republic of China. She was the only woman arrested in what was known as the Seven Gentlemen Incident on the eve of war with Japan in 1936. In 1949, she became the first Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of China.

Biography

Shi Liang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu in 1900. She was educated in Shanghai and became a lawyer there. She and another six intellectuals were arrested by Chiang Kai-shek’s government in 1936, in what is known as the Seven Gentlemen Incident.^[1]

Shi was the first Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959.^[2]

Citations

General references

• Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (2016). "Shi Liang". Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Vol. 2. London: Routledge. pp. 450–455.^{[dead link]}
• Shan, Patrick Fuliang (2013). "Demythologizing Politicized Myths: A New Interpretation of the Seven Gentlemen Incident". Frontiers of History in China. 8 (1): 51–77. doi:10.3868/s020-002-013-0004-6.

External links

• Biography of Shi Liang (in Chinese)
• Profile of Shi Liang^{[permanent dead link]} (in Chinese)

Legal offices
Preceded by New office	Minister of Justice 1949–1959	Succeeded by Wei Wenbo
Party political offices
Preceded by Yang Mingxuan	Chairperson of China Democratic League 1979–1985	Succeeded by Hu Yuzhi