Fei Yimin

Fei Yimin (1908–1988) was the managing director of the pro-Beijing Tai Kung Pao.

He was born in Jiangsu Province of China in 1908. He later moved to Hong Kong and was in charge of the pro-Beijing Tai Kung Pao.[1]

In April 1952, he and the chief editor of the newspaper Lee Tsung-ying were convicted after they reprinted an article from the People's Daily, the official newspaper in the Communist China, accusing British imperialism of "savagely brutal offenses" in Hong Kong and of a "planned systemic massacre" on 1 March. They were given the option of paying or going to jail which they chose the former. The Ta Kung Pao was suspended for six months and later reduced to 12 days.[2]

During the anti-British leftist riots of 1967, he was the executive committee member of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle.

He was also the Hong Kong and Macao representative to the National People's Congress.[3] He severed as the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee from 1985 until his death in 1988.

References

  1. ↑ Huang, Jing; Li, Xiaoting (2010). Inseparable Separation: The Making of China's Taiwan Policy. World Scientific. p. 373.
  2. ↑ Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 121–2.
  3. ↑ Chu, Cindy Yik-yi (2010). Chinese Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists: 1937-1997. Palgrave Macmillan.
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