Revolutionary who met 周恩来 in the May Fourth student movement in Tianjin and married him in 1925. She worked for women's rights all her life and chaired the 全国政协 in the 1980s.
Deng Yingchao devoted her whole life to the women's liberation movement.
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She was born 邓玉爱 and went to school as 邓文淑. A teacher renamed her 邓颖斌, and she swapped the last character for 超 'to surpass', making herself 邓颖超.
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The couple had no biological children but raised several orphans of revolutionary comrades, a story often cited in PRC media as a model of selfless communist ethics.
