Background
He was born in Kwangtung, China in 1887.
He was born in Kwangtung, China in 1887.
He attended schools at Canton before going to Peking where he graduated from the Peking Government University.
Ping-shan Tan was a director of the general strike at Canton in 1924, elected member of the Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang in 1926, member of the Nationalist Government at Wuhan in 1927, representative of Chinese communists on the council of the Communist International.
He was also one of the principal leaders of the Communist Party in China, associated with two other communist leaders Chen Tu-hsiu and the late Li Tai-chao (who was shot by the late Chang Tso-lin at Peking).