Tan Xilin (Chinese language: {{{1}}}; March 12, 1908-February 11, 1970) was a division commander in the New Fourth Army[1] and later a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He was born in Changsha, Hunan. He joined the Chinese Party $3 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).[2]
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↑Bartke, Wolfgang (1997). Who Was Who in the People's Republic of China: With More Than 3100 Portraits. Munich: K G Saur. p. 425.
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