Gong Pusheng

Gong Pusheng (September 1913 – 4 August 2007), also known as Kung Pu-sheng was a Chinese female diplomat.[1]

Gong Pusheng
Gong Pusheng
BornSeptember 1913
Shanghai
Died4 August 2007
Beijing
NationalityChinese
OccupationDiplomat
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseZhang Hanfu (1905–1972)
RelativesGong Zhenzhou (father), Gong Peng (sister)

Biography

Gong Pusheng was born in September 1913 in Shanghai. Her family was from Hefei city, Anhui Province.[2] Her father Gong Zhenzhou held several positions in the Sun Yat-sen’s government.[3] In Shanghai she studied at St. Mary 's Episcopalian Girls' School, and continued her higher education at Yenching University.[4][5]

She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938.[6] On the advice of Zhou Enlai, she later joined the Columbia University. In USA she established contacts with a number of prominent people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl Buck, and Paul Robeson.[7][5]

In 1948 she became a member of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations in New York.[3] She was appointed as a deputy director in the Foreign Ministry, in charge of International Organization and Conference Department in 1949.[8] She later became director in the same department in 1958. She became the first Chinese ambassador to Ireland in August 1980.[7][9]She was part of a number of Chinese delegations to international conferences, and undertook extensive visits abroad.

In 1949 she married Zhang Hanfu (1905 – 1972), who was also a senior diplomat.[7] Her sister Gong Peng also served in the Foreign Ministry.[1]

She died in Beijing on 4 August 2007.

References
  1. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Oxon: Routledge. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. Bartke, Wolfgang (18 June 2012). Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits. Beijing: Walter de Gruyter. p. 116. ISBN 978-3-110-96823-1. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. Faligot, Roger (2019). Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-787-38096-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. Wong, Wai Ching Angela (17 July 2018). Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-9-888-45592-8. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. Lee 2016, p. 180.
  6. Zheng, Yangwen (2017). Sinicizing Christianity. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. p. 69. ISBN 978-9-004-33038-2. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  7. Lary, Diana (5 March 2015). China's Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  8. Lee 2016, p. 181.
  9. Bartke 2012, p. 117.
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