Underground resistance fighter made contribution to victory
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Songjiang native Han Minggao (1919-68) was a Communist Party member who worked for the underground resistance in the towns of Xinzhuang, Maqiao and Xinqiao to fight the Japanese occupying force during the last world war.
After the graduation from Songjiang Normal School, Han became a primary teacher in Shanghai Maqiao Town School.
He joined the Communist Party at age 21 and managed to get hired in a department of the Japanese occupation government, where he was assigned to collect information for the Party.
In 1943, Han opened a small grocery store as his cover, and he also surreptitiously ran a small library to assist the Party. In the same year, the New Fourth Army (the precursor of the Red Army) reached the Songjiang area. Han’s job was to disseminate the news to occupied zones to rouse local morale to fight.
He also organized a protest of more than 800 residents in the front gate of the Japanese government headquarters, objecting to the practice of having to turn over rice harvests to the occupiers. At one point, he led the locals in the destruction of a Japanese-run rice factory.
All the while, he was publishing anti-Japanese leaflets and newspapers in his library and helping recruit more Communist Party members.
With the end of the war and the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Han was appointed deputy director of Sijing Town and Songjiang County. In 1959, he became deputy principal of the Songjiang Agricultural School.
Han organized the faculty to build orchards, rice farms, fishponds and a veterinary hospital, and invited agricultural experts and local farmers to lecture at the school.
In 1961, he initiated an agricultural fair in Zuibai Pond Park, the first event of its kind in Shanghai.
He was framed by enemies and died during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). After that political era ended, he was exonerated of all wrongdoing.
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