Huang Jing

Huang Jing (; 1912 – 10 February 1958), born Yu Qiwei , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as Mayor and Communist Party Chief of Tianjin municipality, Minister of the First Ministry of Machine Building, and Chairman of the National Technological Commission. He was an ex-husband of Jiang Qing, who later married Mao Zedong, and the father of Yu Qiangsheng, a top Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States in 1985, and Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-ranked member of the 18th Politburo Standing Committee.

Early life and revolution

Yu Qiwei was born in 1912 to a prominent family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. His uncle later served as Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China on Taiwan. The chemist Zeng Zhaolun was also his uncle. Yu enrolled in Shandong University in Qingdao, majoring in physics. At the same time, he spent significant amount of time in underground political activism for the Chinese Communist Party.

While in Qingdao, Huang Jing met and married Li Yunhe (who would later change her name to "Jiang Qing" and marry Mao Zedong), in 1932. After Huang's release in 1934, he lived with Li for a while with his family in Shanghai. However, Huang's family was adamantly against their marriage, and they became separated.

After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, Huang moved to the Communist base in Yan'an in winter 1939.

Huang Jing was considered a promising young star of the Communist Party,

Family After his relationship with Jiang Qing ended, Huang went on to marry a journalist, Fan Jin, who, along with her friend Gong Peng, was part of Zhou Enlai's circle of female Chinese spies in the United States, which became close friends to Pearl S. Buck and Eleanor Roosevelt.