Shi Liang Explained

Shi Liang
Office:1st Minister of Justice
Term Start:1 October 1949
Term End:April 1959
Premier:Zhou Enlai
Successor:Wei Wenbo
Office1:Vice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Term Start1:1 July 1979
Term End1:6 September 1985
1Blankname1:Chairman
1Namedata1:Ye Jianying
Peng Zhen
Office2:Vice Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Term Start2:8 March 1978
Term End2:17 June 1983
1Blankname2:Chairman
1Namedata2:Deng Xiaoping
Office3:Chairwoman of the China Democratic League
Term Start3:23 October 1979
Term End3:6 September 1985
Predecessor3:Yang Mingxuan
Successor3:Hu Yuzhi
Birth Date:27 March 1900
Birth Place:Changzhou, Jiangsu
Party:China Democratic League
Nationality:Chinese
Citizenship:Qing EmpireRepublic of ChinaPeople's Republic of China

Shi Liang (; March 27, 1900 – September 6, 1985) was a prominent lawyer and activist of the Republic of China. She was the only woman arrested in what was known as the Seven Gentlemen Incident on the eve of war with Japan in 1936. In 1949, she became the first Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of China.

Biography

Shi Liang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu in 1900. She was educated in Shanghai and became a lawyer there. She and another six intellectuals were arrested by Chiang Kai-shek’s government in 1936, in what is known as the Seven Gentlemen Incident.

Shi was the first Minister of Justice of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959.

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