Fu Dongju (December 20, 1924 - July 2, 2007), also known as Fu Dong, was a reporter and a newspaper editor for People's Daily and was later a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She was the eldest daughter of Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Jinqiang and was the big sister of Fu Xiju and Fu Ruiyuan.
Early life
Fu Dongju was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, on the 30th of December, 1924. In 1941, when she was attending Chongqing Nankai Secondary School, she joined the peripheral organization "the horn society" under the leadership of the southern bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose members were mostly children of senior officials of the Kuomintang. She used her position to hand over confidential information about the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek to Zhou Enlai from the CCP.
In 1942, after graduating from high school, she entered the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming with a major in English. Long Yun, who ruled Yunnan at the time, was more liberal, allowing the CCP and various other democratic parties to operate, allowing her to participate in the student movement during her college years and became a member of the CCP Underground Organization. In December 1945, she joined the Democratic Youth League, a peripheral organization of the CCP in Kunming.
Career
On the 15th of November, 1947, she secretly joined the CCP while in Tianjin. During the spring of 1948, under the leadership of the CCP and Nie Rongzhen, work for the peaceful liberation of Beijing began, organised by the central bureau of the CCP under Chairman . In the autumn of 1948, during the Liaoshen campaign, Liu Ren sent cadres to Tianjin to have a meeting in secret with Fu Dong to convey the instructions of the CCP, asking her to do the work of her father Fu Zuoyi, and she went to Beijing. In November 1948, Liu Ren, in accordance with Nie Rongzhen's instructions, asked Yu Diqing, secretary of the student work committee of the CCP's Beijing underground party, to move Fu Dong to Fu Zuoyi's side as soon as possible so as to keep abreast of Fu's situation. Duan Yongxuan instructed Yu Diqing to negotiate with Fu Zuoyi on behalf of the CCP. Yu Diqing searched for Fu Dong, who was staying at her father's apartment in Zhongnanhai.
During the Pingjin campaign, Fu Zuoyi was surrounded by a many underground CCP members, including his secretary, major general , , and others. They worked with Fu Zuoyi through Liu Houtong, , and others that had ties with him to persuade him to leave Chiang Kai-shek's camp and have talks with the CCP. Due to this, the CCP did not need Fu Dong to provide specific military information, but hoping that she could persuade her father to talk to the CCP.
Fu Dong went to Beijing and talked with her father, telling him that she was sent by the representative of the CCP. Her father asked if she had been sent by Nie Rongzhen or by Mao Zedong. Fu dong was then told to tell him that she was sent by Mao Zedong.
At the time, Fu Dong reported to , an underground member of the CCP, every two days on her father's mood changes, and sent them to the front-line headquarters of the People's Liberation Army through radio. Her job was to tell the CCP of her father's ideas and demands, and then to tell her father about the CCP's ideas and decisions, playing the role of the middleman. Fu Zouyi's concerns at that time were fear and sorry for his subordinates and friends, surrendering to the CCP, and worrying about the future arrangements of his troops, especially cadres. After several negotiations, on the 21st of January, 1949, Xiaojun returned to Beijing, Wang Kejun, Director of the Political Department of Beijing, on behalf of Fu Zuojun, officially wrote the "Peaceful Solution to the Beijing problem", and on the 31st of January the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered Beijing. Throughout the Pingjin campaign, Fu Dong was always by her father's side. In his memoirs, he expressed his great appreciation for Fu Dong's role in the war.