Zhuo Lin 卓琳 | |
Order: | Spouse of the paramount leader of China |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | 1978 |
Term End: | 1989 |
Predecessor: | Han Zhijun |
Successor: | Wang Yeping |
Birth Date: | April 6, 1916 |
Birth Place: | Xuanwei, Yunnan |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Nationality: | Chinese |
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Relatives: | Deng Zhuodi (grandson) |
Zhuo Lin (April 6, 1916 – July 29, 2009) was the third and last wife of Deng Xiaoping, former Paramount leader of China.[1]
Born Pu Qiongying in Xuanwei, Yunnan province, she was the daughter of an industrialist who manufactured Yunnan ham.[2] She attended Peking University, then moved to the Chinese Communist Party base in Yan'an, changed her name to Zhuo Lin, and then joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938. In 1939 she married Deng in front of Mao Zedong's cave dwelling in Yan'an. They had five children - three daughters (Deng Lin, Deng Nan, Deng Rong) and two sons (Deng Pufang, Deng Zhifang). She died on July 29, 2009, aged 93, in Beijing.
. Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China. Ezra F. Vogel. 2011. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 9780674055445. Cambridge, Mass.. 754841335.