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.
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.