What is Li Rui (politician)?
[[File:Li Rui crop.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Li in 1944]] '''Li Rui''' ({{zh|s=李锐}}; 13 April 1917 &ndash; 16 February 2019) was a Chinese [[politician]]. He was a member of the [[Communist Party of China]]. He was also a writer and supporter of [[Chinese democracy movement|democratic reform]] in China.<ref name=Volland>[http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/volland050423.htm Fifty Influential Public Intellectuals - The Propaganda Department's List of Six] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207125602/http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/volland050423.htm |date=2010-12-07 }}, ed by Nicolai Volland, Institut Fur Sinologie</ref> He was born in [[Beijing]]. In the mid-1950s, Li was briefly one of [[Mao Zedong]]'s secretaries. His criticisms of [[Great Leap Forward]], and support for [[Peng Dehuai]], led to his exile. He briefly worked with the [[West Germany|West German]] government.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party|last = Sullivan|first = Lawrence|publisher = Scarecrow Press|year = 2011|pages = 159}}</ref> He was a vice minister of the [[Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Water Conservation]]. Li [[centenarian|turned 100]] in April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39580213|title=Li Rui: China's red rebel turns 100|publisher=[[BBC News]]|author=Staff|date=2017-04-13|access-date=2017-04-23}}</ref> He died on 16 February 2019 in Beijing from [[multiple organ failure]] at the age of 101.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/obituaries/li-rui-dead.html|title=Li Rui, a Mao Confident Who Turned Party Critic, Dies at 101|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|author=Ian Johnson|date=February 15, 2019|access-date=February 15, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110313063428/http://www.lirui.org.cn/ lirui.org.cn - Li Rui discussion board] (in [[Chinese language|Chinese]]) {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Rui}} [[Category:1917 births]] [[C