Zou Taofen

Zou Taofen was a Chinese journalist, media entrepreneur, and political activist. Zou was known for developing Shenghuo Zhoukan into a pioneering journal of political reporting and social commentary, and for his participation in the National Salvation Movement that mobilized opposition to the Nationalist Government and demanded stronger resistance to Japan's expansion. He was one of the so-called "Seven Gentlemen" who were arrested in 1936 and then freed in July 1937 on the eve of the Second Sino-Japanese War. During the war Zou worked in Communist held areas. He died in Shanghai on July 1944, and was granted posthumous Chinese Communist Party membership in September of that year.