Shen Junru and six other intellectuals in Shanghai were arrested in 1936 by Chiang Kai-shek's government, which is known as the Seven Gentlemen Incident. This incident caused a national crisis and the seven individuals were released only after Japan launched an invasion in the summer of 1937.[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Shen was opposed to the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, but was dissuaded from speaking out against it by Zhou Enlai.[2]
Shen died during his sleep in early morning on June 11, 1963, from a long illness at the age of 88 years old.
References
↑Patrick Fuliang Shan, “Demythologizing Politicized Myths: A New Interpretation of the Seven Gentlemen Incident,” Frontiers of History in China, (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013), 51-77.
↑Note 1: Zhang Lan was elected Chairperson at the Fourth and Fifth (Enlarged) Meetings of the 1st Central Committee on 20 December 1949, and died on 9 February 1955.
↑Note 2: Shen Junru was nominated as Acting Chairperson at the Enlarged Provisional Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee on 10 February 1955.
↑Note 3: Shen Junru was elected Vice Chairperson at the Fourth and Fifth (Enlarged) Meetings of the 1st Central Committee on 20 December 1949.
↑Note 4: Zhang Bojun, Luo Longji, Ma Xulun, Shi Liang, and Gao Chongmin were elected Vice Chairpersons at the Seventh Plenary Session of the 1st Central Committee on 8 June 1953.
↑Note 5: Hu Yuzhi was elected Secretary-General at the 42nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 1st Central Committee in 1953.
↑Note 6: Zhang Dongsun was expelled from the China Democratic League in May 1953.
Note: Names struck through were designated as rightists at the 17th (Enlarged) Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League in late January 1958.
↑Note 1: Zhang Bojun was removed from the position of Vice Chairperson of the Central Committee and demoted to Standing Committee Member of the Central Committee.
↑Note 2: Luo Longji was removed from the position of Vice Chairperson of the Central Committee and retained as a Member of the Central Committee.
↑Yang Mingxuan was elected Chairperson of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee in December 1963.
↑Due to illness, Min Ganghou was replaced by acting Secretary-General Xu Shouxuan in 1961, and by acting Secretary-General Li Wenyi in July 1963. Min Ganghou resigned from the post of Secretary-General in December 1963.
↑In December 1963, Hu Yuzhi, Vice Chairperson, was appointed concurrently as Secretary-General by the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League.
