ZHUO FENGKANG, a child of a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother, devoted his life to Chinese revolutions in Shenzhen. His 90-year-old daughter, Zhuo Jinjiao, who lives in Shenzhen, said that, although she only got to spend 10 years with her father, his influence has touched every part of her life, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.

Zhuo Fengkang took his three children and another overseas Chinese’s four children back to Gongcun in Longhua in 1934.

Zhuo Fengkang was a second-generation overseas Chinese. His father was trafficked to Cuba from China in his early years. Then, he moved to Jamaica later and got married there.

At the age of 8, Zhuo Fengkang returned to China for studies.

When Sun Yat-sen initiated the Guangzhou Uprising of 1911, the start of the Revolution of 1911, which overthrew the Qing government and thousands of years of imperial rule, Zhuo Fengkang organized an uprising in Longhua.

However, Sun’s second revolution failed and Zhuo was put on a wanted list. So, he left Longhua for Jamaica.

After the “918 Event” which led to the Japanese invasion of Northeast China, Zhuo Fengkang returned yet again to China so that he could fight against the invasion. This was also when Zhuo Jinjiao came to China.

It is reported that because Zhuo could speak English, Hakka and Cantonese, he earned the trust of his neighbors.

In October in 1938, Zhuo Fengkang led a team of 270 people and became a major force aiding the guerrilla effort to fight against Japanese.

Under leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Zhuo led a team of militia to fight alongside guerrillas in Longhua, killing and wounding more than 20 Japanese in a battle in 1941.

From sometime between the spring and summer in 1942 to early 1943, Kuomintang (KMT) initiated an anti-CPC campaign again. Revolutionists, including Zhuo, became wanted by the KMT army.

Zhuo Fengkang was arrested Oct. 24, 1942 by the KMT.

He was detained in Guanlan and killed the next day, together with several guerrillas.

Zhuo Jinjiao later went to a university as a martyr’s daughter. She didn’t know her birth date until she met her two sisters and mother in Canada in the 1980s. 

(Wang Jingli)