Tan Pingshan
| Tan Pingshan | |
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| 谭平山 | |
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| Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office 12 June 1923 – August 1930 |
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| Minister of Agriculture for the Guomindang | |
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In office 1949–1937 |
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| Born | 28 September 1886 Gaoming, Guangdong, .svg){kind=small} Qing Dynasty
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| Died | 2 April 1956 (aged 69) Beijing,  China
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| Political party |
Tongmenghui (1907-1912) Communist Party of China (Expelled between 1930-1949) Guomindang (1924-1949) |
| Alma mater | Peking University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Tan Pingshan (Chinese: 譚平山; 28 September 1886 – 2 April 1956) was a Chinese revolutionary socialist and an early member of the Chinese Communist Party from Gaoming, Guangdong. He was influential in the Tongmenghui and formed the Guangdong branch of the CPC with the help of Chen Duxiu. He later took part in the formation of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang.
Tan was born into a family of tailors. He was admitted to a premier school in Guangzhou in 1905. Upon graduation, he joined the budding Tongmenghui under the influence of Sun Yat-sen. He enrolled into Peking University's philosophy faculty in 1917 whilst participating in the May Fourth Movement. As a protest to the 21 demands he was part of the group of students who surged and set fire to the house of Minister of Transport Cao Rulin, subsequently being arrested for his actions.
In 1920 Tan went back to Guangdong to form a Marxist group. He was appointed as the Secretary of the CPC Guangdong branch upon the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921. He participated the 3rd National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected into the Central Committee. In the 4th and 5th Congress of the CPC, he was reappointed as a member of the Central Committee and also held membership in the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.
In August 1927 he was one of the leaders that started the Nanchang Rebellion (albeit holding positions within the KMT) against the Nationalist Government led by Jiang Jieshi. During the course of the rebellion, he recruited He Long into the CPC. Tan went back to Shanghai after the failure of the rebellion. In an enlarged meeting of the Politburo in November, Zhang Guotao appealed to the Comintern for the removal of Tan from the party as he blamed the failure of the Nanchang Uprising due to his leftist-tendencies. Losing his CPC membership, he sought after Deng Yanda for assistance in setting up an alternative Marxist enclave but was to no avail.
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