Zhao Yiman
Zhao Yiman, born in 1905, was a well-known national hero of anti-Japanese
aggressors. She joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League of in 1923 and the
Communist Party of China in 1926. She studied in Moscow Sun Yat-Sen University
in former Soviet Union in September 1927. She returned China in 1928 and
secretly conducted works for the Party in Yichang, Nanchang and Shanghai.
After the "Sept. 18th" Incident, Zhao Yiman was assigned to
Northeast China for anti-Japanese aggressors. She took the post of political
commissar of No.2 Corps of the Third Army of Northeast China United Army in
autumn of 1935. When the No.2 Corps was besieged in a mountain in November 1935,
she assisted commander of the corps to fight against the enemy for several days
and beat them off for six times. Then the commander requested Zhao Yiman to lead
the troop to break out, but she said, "you are the command in charge of leading
the troop out, I covered you." Zhao Yiman was seriously injured for the sake of
covering the troop. When she stayed in a farmer's home in Chunqiu Mountain in
Zhuhe County for recovery, but found out by Japanese aggressors. She was injured
once again and captured without consciousness. The Japanese aggressors
excruciated her for confession, but she, in turn, bitterly attacked their crimes
in stern words. She was killed at the age of 31 in Zhuhe River on August 2,
1936.
(July 12, PLA Daily)
the place in which Zhao Yiman was arrested by the Japanese invading troops due
to serious battle wound
Zhao Yiman and her son
The Statue of Zhao Yiman in the Yiman Street of Harbin,
capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province
The Zhao Yiman Memorial situated in Zhao Yiman's hometown,
Yibin City of Sichuan Province