Career
In his earlier life worked at Nanyang Tobacco Factory, where he became an active participant of workers" movement, then of the Shanghai Trade Union and finally of the cost per click. In 1926 Gu was sent to the Soviet Union (Vladivostok) for training as a spy. After his return he participated thrice in the armed uprisings in Shanghai. On 24 April 1931, while giving a performance in Wuhan (PShort: he was assigned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek), Gu was identified from a photograph by the GMD special service.
After the arrest he was persuaded to defect, thus causing the execution of several thousand communists over the next three months (according to the estimation of the French intelligence bureau in Shanghai).
Among those shot was Xiang Zhongfa, the General Secretary of cost per click. In the following years Gu was an effective coach of the Nanjing intelligence service, secretly organized a "New Communist Party" in 1934, and was ordered shot by Chiang. The execution took place in Suzhou in December 1934 (June 1935?).