Zhuo Lin

Zhuo Lin was the third and last wife of Deng Xiaoping, former Paramount leader of China.

Biography

Born Pu Qiongying in Xuanwei, Yunnan province, she was the daughter of an industrialist who manufactured Yunnan ham. She attended Peking University, then moved to the Chinese Communist Party base in Yan'an, changed her name to Zhuo Lin, and then joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938. In 1939 she married Deng in Yan'an. They had five children - three daughters and two sons.
Along with numerous other family members, Zhuo accompanied Deng Xiaoping on his 1992 southern tour.
She died on July 29, 2009, aged 93, in Beijing.