Liu Shao-chi, Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is one of the leaders of the contemporary revolutionary movement and the trade union movement in China
Liu Shao-chi was born in 1900 in Ninghsiang County, Hunan Province. In 1920 he joined the Socialist Youth League of China (the predecessor of the Communist Party of China), which was founded in the same year. In 1921, the Communist Party of China was established and Liu Shao-chi joined the Party in the same year. In the spring of 1922 he was appointed to the Secretariat of the China Labour Organization, the fore-runner of the All-China Federation of Labour.
From that time on to the defeat of the first great revolution in 1927 Liu Shao-chi led the revolutionary trade union movement in China.
After the defeat of the first great revolution in 1927 Liu Shao-chi went underground and continued to direct the trade union movement. In the autumn of 1932, he went to the revolutionary base in Kiangsi and took charge of the workers' movement in the Red Areas.
From 1936 to 1942, Liu Shao-chi served successively as secretary of the North Bureau, Central Plains Bureau and Central China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist party of China.
Since 1932, Liu Shao-chi has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. From 1943 onwards, he has been a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Revolutionary Military Council.
When the People's Republic of China was inaugurated on October 1, 1949, Liu Shao-chi became Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government.
In addition to Internationalism and Nationalism, other works by Liu Shao-chi include On the Party, On Inner-Party Struggle, How to Be a Good Communist? and other important writings.