Burying past bitterness

• Source: Global Times
• [08:24 February 14 2011]
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Zhu Feng's life

1905 Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, to a local gentry family.

1921 Enters the Ningbo Normal School for Women, a school with revolutionary tradition

1927 Marries Chen Shouqing, general engineer of the Fengtian Arsenal, in Shenyang.

1931 The family moves back to Ningbo after the Mukden Incident

1932 Chen Shouqing dies of cholera

1937 Participates in the anti-Japanese war with the later husband Zhu Xiaoguang and works in the Xinzhi Bookstore, which closely related to the communist government at that time

1945 Joins the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai

1948 Dispatched to Hong Kong as a secret agent.

November 1949 Dispatched to Taiwan for intelligence gathering and espionage.

January 1950 Taiwan Communist underground leader Cai Xiaoqian defects and 400 agents are exposed by his confession; Zhu escapes arrest and flees to Kuomintang-occupied Zhoushan Island, off Zhejiang Province.

February 1950 Arrested after failing to commit suicide by swallowing a gold necklace. Transported to Taipei for trial.

May 1950 Communists take Zhoushan Island from Kuomintang in an amphibious operation.

June 10, 1950 Zhu executed in Taipei.

source: Zhenhai's daughter, the biography of Zhu Feng, written by Feng Yitong

Fast facts: The Wu Shi espionage case

Wu Shi, a senior general in the Kuomintang, became deputy chief of the Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan after the 1949 relocation.

Critical of Chiang Kai-shek, Wu started providing military intelligence to the Chinese Communist Party in 1948. Then in January 1950, Cai Xiaoqian, head of the Communist underground organization in Taiwan, defected.

Cai's confession led to the arrest of more than 400 Communist spies including Wu and Zhu Feng.

Wu Shi and Zhu Feng were executed in Taipei on June 10, 1950.