Li Weihan

Li Weihan
李维汉
Li in 1946
Vice Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission
In office
12 September 1982 – 11 August 1984
ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
2 July 1979 – 17 June 1983
ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
In office
25 December 1954 – 5 January 1965
ChairpersonZhou Enlai
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
27 September 1954 – 3 January 1965
ChairmanLiu Shaoqi
Zhu De
Secretary-General of Government Administration Council
In office
19 October 1949 – 18 September 1953
PremierZhou Enlai
Preceded byNew title
Succeeded byXu Bing
Head of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
26 September 1948 – 25 December 1964
Preceded byZhou Enlai
Succeeded byXu Bing
Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
9 August 1927 – 23 September 1927
Preceded byZhang Guotao
Succeeded byLuo Yinong
Member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
9 August 1927 – 19 June 1928
General SecretaryChen Duxiu
Personal details
Born(1896-06-02)2 June 1896
Died11 August 1984(1984-08-11) (aged 88)
Beijing, China
PartyChinese Communist Party
Spouse(s)Cao Wenyu
Jin Weiying
Wu Jingzhi
Children5, including Li Tieying
Alma materHunan First Normal University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLǐ Wéihàn

Li Weihan (Chinese: 李维汉; 2 June 1896 – 11 August 1984) was a Chinese Communist Party politician from Hunan. A Long March veteran, Li led the Central Party School in Yan'an. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was the Chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and led the United Front Department until 1964. As director of the UFWD, Li's view was that the CCP should accommodate and seek to raise the political consciousness of religious believers, contending that believers were generally "patriotic". In the 1960s, Li was politically targeted because of his comparatively soft line on religious policy. Politically rehabilitated in 1978, Li was later appointed to the Central Advisory Commission. Li died in 1984.