Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution - KU ...

pai, who had attended the Congress of Toilers of the Far East in Moscow
in 1922 as a KMT representative. Subsequent to the departure of
Ku Cheng-kang's group, a group of ten, including Wang Shao-lun,
Shen Yuan-ming, Ho Han-wen, and Liu P'an-chu, was also sent back
to China. Finally, a group that included Chiang Hsi-chung was sent
back.
When Wu Chia-yu and his group arrived at Vladivostok, the Chinese
Communists were staging the Canton Uprising (December 11,
1927), which caused the Chinese government to sever relations with
Russia on December 15, 1927. All ships going to Shanghai were
stopped. Wu and others hurriedly made arrangements with the Japanese
consul to return to China via Japan. When Chiang Hsi-chung and
his companions arrived at Vladivostok three days after Wu, they were
promptly arrested by the GPU and sent back to Moscow. They were
tried by a revolutionary court composed of Ch'in Pang-hsien and other
Communist students at the university. They were found guilty of
"being lackeys of the national capitalistic class" and of "destroying the
proletarian revolution" and were sentenced to forced labor in Siberia—
chopping wood and digging coal. In the summer of 1928 Chiang Hsichung
was able to escape from his labor camp. After passing through
many dangers, he made his way to Nanking and reported his experience
to the KMT authorities.
The students mentioned above were not the only KMT students who
suffered privations at the hands of the Russians and the Communist
students of the university. After China severed relations with Russia,
many of the sons and relatives of prominent members* of the KMT
who did not return to China in time or who were not absorbed into
the Communist organization were arrested and imprisoned for a year
and then released. Some were apparently detained permanently, and
their fate is unknown.
The remainder of the KMT Left Wing which remained at the
university was finally absorbed into the CCP, and in 1928 the name of
* The sons, daughters, and relatives of prominent members of the KMT who went to
Sun Yat-sen University included: Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo; Shao Li-tzu's son
Shao Chih-kang; Feng Yu-hsiang's son Feng Hung-kuo and daughter Feng Fu-lun; Li Tsungjen's
brother-in-law Wei Yun-ch'eng, who later married Chiang Kai-shek's niece; Li Tsungjen's
wife, Wei Shu-ying; Chang Fa-k'uei's brother Chang Fa-ming; Teng Yen-ta's brother
Teng Ming-ch'iu; Ch'en Shu-jen's son Ch'en Fu; Yeh Ts'u-ts'ang's son Yeh Nan; and
General Ku Cheng-lun's two brothers Ku Cheng-kang and Ku Cheng-ting.
103