Deng Tuo

Deng Tuo (February 26, 1912 - May 18, 1966), whose nickname was Xu Chu, formerly known as Zijian, and whose pen names were Manancun, Deng Yunte, Zuo Hai, etc., was male and a native of Min County, Fujian (now Fuzhou). He was a political commentator, scholar, and writer in Chinese newspapers and periodicals. He was an important member of the propaganda front of the Communist Party of China. He has long served as the president of the People's Daily and other leading positions in major central propaganda agencies. Later, he was reprimanded for repeatedly failing to understand the meaning of Mao Zedong's political deployment, and was dismissed from his actual post in the People's Daily. He committed suicide due to political criticism on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, and was exonerated in 1979.