Gong Pusheng

Gong Pusheng (龚普生) or (September 1913 – 4 August 2007) was a Chinese revolutionary activist and diplomat.

Biography Gong Pusheng was born in September 1913 in Shanghai. Her father, Gong Zhenzhou, held several positions in the Sun Yat-sen's government. Her sister, Gong Peng, was also an activist and government official. In Shanghai she studied at St. Mary's Episcopalian Girls' School, and continued her higher education at Yenching University.

She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938. On the advice of Zhou Enlai, she later attended Columbia University, in New York, where she established contacts with prominent people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl Buck, and Paul Robeson.

In 1948 she became a member of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations in New York.