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Yang Yun-yii
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When the PRC was established in 1949, Yang Yun-yil was an obscure woman leader, but by the 1960's she had risen to be the leading Chinese contact with the international Communist women’s movement. She first came to notice in the spring of 1949 when elected a member of the Executive Committee of the All-China Federation of Democratic Women (ACFDW).
Education
Yang Yun-yii was educated locally.
Career
Yang’s career took a significant turn in 1953. At the Third World Women’s Congress in Copenhagen in June 1953, she was elected an alternate member of the General Council of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), as well as a secretary of the WIDF Secretariat. As a consequence of the latter position, she was posted to WIDF Headquarters in East Berlin for a portion of the mid-1950’s (approximately 1953-1955). During this period she was a delegate to a WIDF meeting in Geneva in January 1954 and attended the WIDF-sponsored “（Congress of World Mothers” in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July 1955. She was also a member of a delegation to the first Afro-Asian Women's Conference held in Ceylon in February 1958. During these same years of the mid-1950's, Yang received new appointments in organizations in China, both official and quasi-official. She was elected as a Honan deputy to the First NPC (1954-1959), she was transferred to the Shantung constituency for the Second NPC (1959-1964) and for the Third, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965. In September 1957 she was named to the council of the newly formed China- Syria Friendship Association (CSFA) and when the CSFA was merged with the counterpart for Egypt in February 1958 (coinciding with the merger of Egypt and Syria), she was reappointed to the council for the China-United Arab Republic Friendship Association. Five months later, in July 1958, she was named to membership on the National Committee of the China Peace Committee, another position that she continues to hold.
The journey to Moscow in June 1963 for the World Women’s Congress was clearly a high point in Yang's career. The congress was attended by about 1300 delegates and soon turned into a platform for a thorough airing of the Sino-Soviet dispute, then at a peak. In a bitter speech, Yang denounced the management of the congress，the “slanderers” of China, and refused to endorse a general resolution backed by almost all the other delegates. She remained in Moscow long enough to welcome Teng Hsiao- p'ing (July 5, 1963) when the latter arrived for the historic talks with the CPSU leaders, which led only to a stalemate in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Two weeks later, back in Peking, Yang delivered the main address before a mass rally, called to welcome her group back to China. In this remarkable speech, she catalogued a lengthy list of China’s grievances, going as far as to register an acid complaint about allegedly inadequate hotel accommodations for her delegation.
In spite of the adverse treatment supposedly meted out to the Chinese, it appears that Yang was elevated from a secretaryship in the WIDF to a vice-presidency, she has been identified in this post by non-Chinese sources in the period after the rowdy Moscow meeting in mid-1963. Moreover, as the already mentioned travels indicate, she continues to take part in WIDF affairs. At the same time, there are some indications that she may have begun to take a larger part in domestic affairs, possibly with an emphasis on sports. She was named to membership on the State Councirs Physical Culture and Sports Commission in September 1959 and when the All-China Athletic Federation held its fourth congress in January-February 1964, she was elected to the National Committee. In August 1964, the regime formed a permanent National Committee to participate in the Indonesian-backed “Games of the New Emerging Forces” (GANEFO, see under Jung Kao-t’ang), Yang was selected for National Committee membership. Still another assignment involving athletics occurred in January 1965 when Yang was named to the preparatory committee for the second national sports meet scheduled for later in 1965. An additional indication of Yang’s rise took place at the first session of the Third NPC in Deecember 1964-January 1965. For the first time she was made a member of the NPC Standing Committee, the permanent organization of the Congress, which meets with regularity and is in charge of the affairs of the Congress between the annual sessions.
Politics
Until 1960, Yang had never been the leader of a delegation abroad. An indication of her rising stature lies in the fact that between 1960 and 1964 she led no less than 12 delegations abroad all involving women’s affairs (mainly the WIDF). She headed groups to the following WIDF meetings: Indonesia, January-February 1960, Poland, November 1960, Rumania, October 1961, Mali, January-February 1962, Czechoslovakia, May-June 1962; the USSR, June 1963, East Germany, December 1963, Bulgaria, October 1964. In addition, she also attended a WIDF meeting in November-December 1962 in East Berlin. Her other trips were as: leader of a delegation to the Afro-Asian Women's Conference in Cairo, January 1961, leader of a delegation to the Fifth Congress of the Women’s Union of Albania, October 1961, leader of a group to the World Rally of Women for Disarmament in Vienna in March 1962, leader of a women’s friendship delegation to Japan in June 1964 and member of a delegation led by Liu Ning-i to Hanoi in November-December 1964 for a large conference to promote “solidarity” with the Vietnamese.
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