Fang Zhichun
{{Short description|Chinese politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Fang Zhicun
|image=File:Fang Zhichun.jpeg
| office = Governor of Jiangxi
| predecessor = Shao Shiping
| successor = Cheng Shiqing
| term_start = September 1965
| term_end = January 1968
| birth_date = September 11, 1905
| birth_place = Yiyang County, Jiangxi, China
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|07|31|1905|09|11}}
| party = Chinese Communist Party
}}
Fang Zhichun ({{zh|方志純}}) (September 11, 1905 – July 31, 1993) was a People's Republic of China politician.{{Cite book |last=Bartke |first=Wolfgang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XshAAAAQBAJ |title=Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits |date=2012-06-18 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-096823-1 |pages=97–98 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Hendrischke |first1=Hans J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNN4eQZzaxoC |title=The Political Economy of China's Provinces: Comparative and Competitive Advantage |last2=Feng |first2=Chongyi |last3=Feng |first3=Zhongyi |date=1999 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-20775-1 |pages=255 |language=en}} He was a cousin of Fang Zhimin. He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1924 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927. In January 1928, along with his cousin and Huang Dao, he organized an uprising in Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province. In 1937 he went to Yan'an, Shaanxi Province and in 1938 he went to the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he was arrested and imprisoned in Xinjiang by local warlord Sheng Shicai. In June 1946, he married Zhu Danhua, the widow of Mao Zedong's younger brother Mao Zemin, and became the stepfather Mao Zedong's nephew Mao Yuanxin.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
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Category:People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangxi
Category:Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangxi
Category:Chinese Red Army generals
Category:Politicians from Shangrao
Category:Generals from Jiangxi
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