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Li Rui
Li Rui
李锐
	Studio portrait, 1947
Member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; 1982–1987
Vice-Director of the Organisation Department of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; 1982–1984
Vice-Minister of Water Resources
	In office; 1958–1958
Personal details
Born	14 April 1917; Pingjiang County, Hunan, China
Died	16 February 2019 (aged 101); Beijing, China
Resting place	Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
Political party	CCP
Spouses	Fan Yuanzhen (范元甄) (m. 1939⁠–⁠1944) (m. 1945⁠–⁠1962); Zhang Yuzhen (张玉珍) (m. 1979);
Children	3
Alma mater	Wuhan University
Occupation	Revolutionary, politician, historian
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	李銳
Simplified Chinese	李锐
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lǐ Ruì
IPA	[lì ɻwêɪ]

Li Rui (simplified Chinese: 李锐; traditional Chinese: 李銳; pinyin: Lǐ Ruì; 14 April 1917 – 16 February 2019) was a Chinese politician, historian and dissident Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member.

As a young student activist, Li joined the Communists in 1937 during the Chinese Civil War. By 1958, he had become the vice-minister of the Ministry of Water Resources. His vocal opposition to the proposed Three Gorges Dam brought him to the attention of the Chairman of the CCP, Mao Zedong. Li impressed Mao, who made him his personal secretary for industrial affairs. However, Li was known for his independence of thought, and defied Mao at the 1959 Lushan Conference. Li was expelled from the party and sent to a prison camp, beginning nearly twenty years of political exile. Denounced by his family for anti-Mao activities during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, he spent eight years in solitary confinement at the Qincheng Prison.

After Mao's death, Li's party membership was restored. He regained an influential position in the CCP but, after only a few years, was forced to resign because he was unwilling to favor the children of influential party members. From the mid-1980s, shut out of formal power, Li wrote and commentated extensively, calling for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and democracy within a socialist framework. He also wrote five books on Mao and early Communist Party history. Li remained a party member until his death, respected but isolated; his views were formally denounced and he was censored in the Chinese press. Li died in 2019, aged 101. He was described by The Guardian in 2005 as living a life "filled with rebellions, often at great personal cost, against those who abused their power".^[1]

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