Gong Pusheng
Gong Pusheng
BornSeptember 1913
Shanghai
Died4 August 2007
Beijing
NationalityChinese
OccupationDiplomat
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseZhang Hanfu (1905–1972)
RelativesGong Zhenzhou (father), Gong Peng (sister)

Gong Pusheng (September 1913 – 4 August 2007), also known as Kung Pu-sheng was a Chinese female diplomat.[1]

Biography

Gong Pusheng was born in September 1913 in Shanghai. Her family was from Hefei city, Anhui Province.[2] Her father Gong Zhenzhou held several positions in the Sun Yat-sen’s government.[3] In Shanghai she studied at St. Mary 's Episcopalian Girls' School, and continued her higher education at Yenching University.[4][5]

She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938.[6] On the advice of Zhou Enlai, she later joined the Columbia University. In USA she established contacts with a number of prominent people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl Buck, and Paul Robeson.[7][5]

In 1948 she became a member of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations in New York.[3] She was appointed as a deputy director in the Foreign Ministry, in charge of International Organization and Conference Department in 1949.[8] She later became director in the same department in 1958. She became the first Chinese ambassador to Ireland in August 1980.[7][9]She was part of a number of Chinese delegations to international conferences, and undertook extensive visits abroad.

In 1949 she married Zhang Hanfu (1905 – 1972), who was also a senior diplomat.[7] Her sister Gong Peng also served in the Foreign Ministry.[1]

She died in Beijing on 4 August 2007.

References

  1. 1 2 Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Oxon: Routledge. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Bartke, Wolfgang (18 June 2012). Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits. Beijing: Walter de Gruyter. p. 116. ISBN 978-3-110-96823-1. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. 1 2 Faligot, Roger (2019). Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-787-38096-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. ↑ Wong, Wai Ching Angela (17 July 2018). Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-9-888-45592-8. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. 1 2 Lee 2016, p. 180.
  6. ↑ Zheng, Yangwen (2017). Sinicizing Christianity. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. p. 69. ISBN 978-9-004-33038-2. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 Lary, Diana (5 March 2015). China's Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  8. ↑ Lee 2016, p. 181.
  9. ↑ Bartke 2012, p. 117.
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