ABSTRACT
Zhou Chunlin, who was also known as Zhou Yulong, came from Macheng County in Hubei Province, where he was born in 1912 into a poor farming family. During widespread rural period of rural revolution, he rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming a battalion political commissar in the Red Army. Two other Communists, his comrades Zeng Yuliang and Zhao Haifeng, who were both veterans of the Long March were also imprisoned with Zhou and all three were transferred to prison in Urumqi in February 1939. Zhao Haifeng headed the Jiangsu Province Department of Health after 1949 and he died in 1976. Zeng Yuliang was killed by the Japanese while serving as commander of a cavalry regiment in Cao County, Shandong in 1944. Zhou Chunlin revisited Kashgar in 1983 where he met one of the people who had falsely accused him in 1938 and received an apology.
