Ye Ting
Ye Ting , born in Huiyang, Guangdong, was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. He started out with the Kuomintang but later joined the Communist Party of China.
Ye was the eighth child of Ye Xi and Wu Shi.
Ye joined the Kuomintang when Sun Yat-sen founded it in 1919 deputy division commander of the 15th Division, b) division commander of the 24th Division of the 11th Army, and c) deputy army commander of the 11th Army.
On August 1, with Chen Yi, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Lin Biao, Liu Bocheng and Guo Moruo, he participated in the failed Nanchang Uprising, when the "Chinese Red Army" was founded. After Nanchang, he went to Hong Kong, whence on December 11 he led the Canton Uprising. After this uprising failed, he was persecuted as a scapegoat and as a result, he was exiled to Europe and when he returned to Asia went into hiding in Macao.
In 1937 he served as army commander of the New Fourth Army. During New Fourth Army Incident, Ye, wanting to save his men, went to Shangguan Yunxiang's headquarters 13 January 1941 to negotiate terms. Upon arrival, Ye was detained. Chiang Kai-shek ordered the New Fourth Army disbanded on January 17 and sent Ye to a military tribunal. Ye was then jailed for five years, until 1946. On April 8 of that year, after he was released, en route from Chongqing to Yan'an, he died in a plane crash. Among the victims were some of his family members and several senior CPC leaders such as Bo Gu, Deng Fa, and Wang Ruofei. There are rumors that Chiang Kai-shek arranged the crash. On April 17, held a public memorial at the Lan County airport.
Ye had a total of nine children including aircraft designer, Lt. Gen. Ye Zhengda. One of his granddaughters, Ye Xiaoyan, through Ye's second son Ye Zhengming, is married to Li Xiaoyong, son of former Chinese premier Li Peng.
