ABSTRACT
In Peking in 1949 after the Communist regime was installed, Liu Tsun-chi was a member of the journalists' delegation to the Consultative Conference for the Constitution. When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he was ordered to join in the marches and demonstrations that took place every day for a while. He became head of the China Information Bureau and later of the Foreign Languages Press, which published People's China, the Peking Review, and other materials in English. He was sent to a labor camp in northern Manchuria. Liu was the author of China Forum a letter whose original text was signed with several names, including his own. In response to that letter, a delegation of the China League for Civil Rights went to visit the prison. In 1936 Liu Shaoqi was head of the North China Bureau of the Communist Party. In Kuomintang-controlled territory, the Communist movement had been decimated by government repression.
