Early Life
Qiao Shi became involved with the anti-Kuomintang student movement in his youth, and joined the Communist Party of China in August 1940. To facilitate undercover work, and also to show his revolution zeal, he changed his name from the original Jiang Zhitong (蒋志彤) to Jiang Qiaoshi (蒋乔石). He was educated at Tongji University, Shanghai. Qiao Shi is married to wife Yu Wen, and they have two sons and two daughters.
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