Visiting Comrade Xie Fei — Exposing Liu Shaoqi’s Beastly Heart and Face
January 1967 in Nanning
Edited and published by the Southbound Propaganda Team of the “Watch Today” Battle Corps of Beijing University of Technology, titled “Thoroughly Smash the Bourgeois Reactionary Line — Down with Liu Shaoqi”
The following is a record of a conversation with Comrade Xie Fei, the deputy principal of the Political and Legal Cadre School and Liu Shaoqi’s second wife, held on the evening of January 5 (not reviewed by her):
(1) Liu Shaoqi Had Five Wives
Liu Shaoqi’s first wife was He Baozhen, with whom he had three children. She had a strong revolutionary will and was later killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries. Comrade Xie Fei respects Martyr He Baozhen very much. For a period, she took care of her two children, but they separated due to revolutionary work needs.
Comrade Xie Fei was Liu Shaoqi’s second wife. She joined the revolution in 1927, went through the Long March, came from a very poor family, with a literacy level of only junior high school. She married Liu Shaoqi in 1935 and divorced in 1939.
Liu Shaoqi’s third wife was Wang Qian, mother of Liu Tao, from a poor family, with a literacy level of elementary school.
Liu Shaoqi’s fourth wife was Wang Zhen, whom he married for only a few months.
Liu Shaoqi’s fifth wife was Wang Guangmei, the daughter of Tianjin’s largest capitalist. Wang Guangmei was a university student and had been a graduate student.
(2) Liu Shaoqi, Habitually Playing with Women
Liu Shaoqi’s relationships with women were not extremely chaotic, but he was not serious either. Why did we divorce? Because my family was poor, my education was low, I was older (I was 26 at the time of divorce, and he was nearly 40), so he married a girl aged 16–17, Wang Qian.
Another important reason for our divorce was that I once raised a question with him, saying he did not value or promote workers and peasants, did not love them, and only promoted and valued intellectuals. We often argued about this.
I remember he rebutted me, saying that those intellectuals were trained, some had been in prison, like Peng Zhen. He used this to express his dissatisfaction with me, saying I was politically attacking him.
At that time, he was a Central Committee member, and I was just an ordinary party member. He looked down on me, and I was not willing to accept him, so I proposed divorce. Later, he used this to achieve his goal of discarding old love for new.
He had poor relationships with his wives—lasting years with some, months with others. He did not get along with the strong-willed Martyr He Baozhen, often quarreling. He and his fourth wife Wang Zhen (said to be a university student) only stayed together for a few months; later, he said she had a mental illness and kicked her out. Only with Wang Guangmei, the capitalist’s daughter, did he have a passionate relationship because her family was wealthy and educated.
(3) Slandering and Defaming Revolutionary Female Comrades, Promoting “War Destruction Theory”
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, I was about 24–25 years old, full of revolutionary enthusiasm, eager to go to the front to fight and kill the enemy. But he disagreed, claiming that women lacked strength, and even the Japanese could not be seen; to kill Japanese, one would have to be raped by them first.
At that time, I thought it was because of our feelings that he didn’t let me go. But now I see it was not quite so.
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(4) Flattering, Fawning, and Factionalism Are Liu Shaoqi’s Tricks
Liu Shaoqi was capable of retaliation and suppression, and I am an example. During our time together, I never saw him promote a worker or peasant. For example, Lin Feng and his partner were intellectuals; he respected them and spoke well of them.
Also, Xiang Ming from Shandong Provincial Committee (later said to be a traitor) was a cadre he admired very much. At that time, he also said that Rao Shushi was a young politician.
In my memory, another example of retaliation was his suppression of Ke Qingshi. Ke Qingshi had a poor relationship with Liu Shaoqi; it is said that Ke once told someone that Liu was an old rightist (or old opportunist). Liu knew this later and kept it in his mind. In 1936 in Tianjin, he even wrote a letter criticizing Ke Qingshi.
(5) Unchanging Stigma, Corruption as a Habit
Liu Shaoqi was an intellectual. I heard his grandfather owned over a hundred acres of land, but later from his family, it seemed he was at least a rich peasant or a fallen landlord.
Finally, Comrade Xie Fei mentioned around 1937 Liu sent 200 yuan to his eldest son, claiming it was approved by the organization, but I am not clear on the details.
Part of the Big-character Posters from Revolutionaries in Beijing’s 2451 Mailbox
The above “Visiting Comrade Xie Fei — Exposing Liu Shaoqi’s Beastly Heart and Face” was compiled and printed in January 1967 by the “Beijing University of Technology ‘Watch Today’ Battle Corps Southbound Propaganda Team” in Nanning, titled “Thoroughly Smash the Bourgeois Reactionary Line — Down with Liu Shaoqi”
