Tan Xilin

{{short description|People's Liberation Army general}}

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| name = Tan Xilin

| native_name = 谭希林

| native_name_lang = zh

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|3|12}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1970|2|11|1908|3|12}}

| birth_place = Changsha, Hunan, Qing dynasty

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| image = Tanxilin.jpg

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| allegiance = {{PRC}}

| branch = {{Army|China}}

| serviceyears = 1927-1970

| rank = Lieutenant general (Zhong jiang)

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| battles = {{flatlist|

• Sino-Japanese War
• Chinese Civil War
• Nanchang Uprising
• Long March
• Battle of Yongjiazhen

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Tan Xilin ({{lang-zh|c=谭希林|p=Tán Xīlín}}; March 12, 1908-February 11, 1970) was a division commander in the New Fourth Army{{cite book |last1=Dittmer |first1=Lowell |title=Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution |date=2015 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |edition=Second|chapter=Underground Worker in White Areas}} and later a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He was born in Changsha, Hunan. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1927 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Jiangxi Soviet. He commanded an engineering detachment during the Long March. After fighting in the Chinese Communist Revolution, he became the Chinese ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1950–1954).{{cite book |last1=Bartke |first1=Wolfgang |title=Who Was Who in the People's Republic of China: With More Than 3100 Portraits |date=1997 |publisher=K G Saur |location=Munich |page=425}}