Fan Changjiang - Timeline

Timeline

• 1909 October 6 – Fan was born in Sichuan province.
• 1927 August 1 – Fan participated in the Nanchang Uprising(南昌 起義).
• 1928 spring – Fan entered the Nanjing Central Party Affair School(南京中央黨務學校) which later called Central School of Politics (中央政治學校)--(1)
• 1931 September – Fan quit the school as it suppressed Fan’s effort to lead the students to fight against Japan’s invasion, after the Mukden Incident (柳條湖事件)on September 18. He also quit Kuomintang.
• 1932 – Fan started studying philosophy in Peking University(北京大學).
• 1933 – He started writing articles in several newspapers, such as Chen Bao (《晨報》)in Beijing,Shi Jie Ri Bao (《世界日報》)and Yi Shi Bao (《益世報》)in Tianjin.
• 1934 – Fan was hired by Tianjin's Da Gong Bao.
• 1935 May – Fan, as a commissioner of Da Gong Bao, visited the northwest part of China for 10 months. He wrote a series of articles and later were collected and published in The North Western Part of China.
• 1937 – Fan went to Xi'an in early February in an attempt to unveil the situation there after the Xian incident.The articles were later collected in The Journey to Shanbei《陝北之行》.

- February 4 – Fan met Zhou Enlai in Xian

- February 9 – Fan met Mao Zedong in Shanxi

- February 15 – Da Kung Bao 《大公報》 published Fan’s famous article: Dongdangzhong Zhi Xibei Daju 《動盪中之西北大局》

- November 8 – Fan established the Chinese Young Journalists Association (中國青年新聞記者協會) with his Colleagues.

• 1938 March 30 – Chinese Young Journalists Association (中國青年新聞記者協會) was renamed as Chinese Young Journalists Society (中國青年新聞記者學會) and Fan was appointed as the society representative.
• 1939 May – Fan joined the Communist party. and cofound the Huashang Daily 《華商報》 in Hong Kong. His posts included the principal of Huangzhong Journalism College (華中新聞專學校), chairman of Huangzhong Branch of New China News Agency (新華社華中分社) and Huangzhong Post of Xinhua Daily 《新華日報》(華中報).
• 1940 December 8 – Fan married Shen Junru’s daughter, Shen Pu in Chongqing.
• 1949 July – Establishment of the All-China Journalists Association.
• 1967 – Fan was forced to solitary confinement since the Cultural Revolution started.
• 1970 October 23 – Fan committed suicide by jumping into a well in Henan Province when he was 61 years old.
• 1978 December 27 – Fan was redressed by the Central Government.
• 1991 – Fan Changjiang Journalism Awards was set up by the Chinese Journalists Association Committee and served as an encouragement of the young journalists in China.

• (1): Every student was obliged to join Kuomintang at that time.