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Li Rui
Li Rui, the Communist Party veteran who drew
international attention for his recent call for political reform at the
16th Party Congress (2002), was at one time Mao's secretary. As an idealistic
youth, he traveled to the Communist base at Yan'an in the late 1930s,
and he first suffered revolutionary persecution there during the early
1940s. As one of Mao's secretaries, he briefly had access to the inner
circle of China's ruling elite in the 1950s, but his criticisms of the
Great Leap Forward led to his denunciation and exile.
His daughter, Li Nanyang, is also interviewed in
Morning Sun. She describes the impact of her father's downfall
on her own life.
