Zhao Yiman：a political com-missar of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Army of Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces.

The Portrait of Zhao Yiman

Zhao, formerly known as Li Kuntai, was born on October 25, 1905 in Yibin, Sichuan. After the May Fourth Movement broke out, Zhao Yiman began to accept new revolutionary ideas. In the winter of 1923, Zhao Yiman joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League and oined the Communist Party of China in the summer of 1926.

File photo taken in east China’s Shanghai in 1928 shows Zhao Yiman and her son

In September 1927, Zhao Yiman went to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. After returning home the following year, she secretly carried out Party work in Yichang, Nanchang and Shanghai.

The sculpture of Zhao Yiman

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Zhao was sent to Northeast China to launch the anti-Japanese struggle. In the autumn of 1935, Zhao Yiman was appointed as a political com-missar of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Army of Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces. In November, the 2nd regiment was besieged in a mountain by Japanese and puppet troops. Zhao was seriously injured in order to cover the troops to break through. She was discovered by the Japanese army during her rehabilitation. She was injured again in the battle and was captured in a coma. During her capture, the Japanese tortured Zhao to force her to confess. She would rather die than surrender and sternly denounced the Japanese ag-gression. On August 2, 1936, Zhao died heroically at the age of 31.

Source：The Press Office, International Department of the CPC Central Committee