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{{family name hatnote|Ke|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Ke Qingshi
| image               = Ke_Qingshi.jpg
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1902|10|10|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[She County, Anhui]], [[Qing Empire]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1965|4|9|1902|10|10|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]], China
| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]]
| office              = Mayor of Shanghai
| term_start          = 1958
| term_end            = 1964
| predecessor         = [[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]]
| successor           = [[Cao Diqiu]]
| office1             = CCP Committee Secretary of Shanghai
| term_start1         = 1954
| term_end1           = 1965
| predecessor1        = Chen Yi
| successor1          = [[Chen Pixian]]
| children            = Ke Liuliu, Ke Youning, Ke Youjin, Ke Youshen
}}
 
'''Ke Qingshi''' ([[Chinese character|Chinese:]] 柯庆施; October 10, 1902 – April 9, 1965) was a senior leader of the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hua |first=Gao |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4M89EAAAQBAJ |title=How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945 |date=2018-11-15 |publisher=The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |isbn=978-962-996-822-9 |language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==

Born in [[She County, Anhui|She County]], [[Anhui Province]], Ke joined Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1920, and the Chinese Communist Party in 1922. Ke led the Party in Beijing during the 1930s, until it was sabotaged by the [[Kuomintang]], although Ke escaped arrest because he was in Suiyuan at this time.

During the [[Shaan-Gan-Ning|Yan'an period]] he served as deputy director of China Women's College and later, since 1939, as deputy director of the Central Committee's United front Department. He was purged during the [[Yan'an Rectification Movement|Rectification Campaign]] in 1943, allegedly due to his antagonism with [[Liu Shaoqi]], who at that time was second in command of the Party. Following the end of the Rectification Campaign he started rising within the Party and became closer to [[Mao Zedong]].<ref name=":0" />{{rp|549–552}}

After the establishment of the [[People's Republic of China]], Ke served as the secretary of CCP Nanjing municipal committee, the mayor of Nanjing, a member of East China Military and Political Commission, Party chief of [[Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee]],<ref name="j153">{{cite book | author=《当代中国的江苏》编委会 | author2=江苏省档案局 | title=江苏省大事记: 1949-1985 | publisher=[[Jiangsu People's Press]] | year=1988 | isbn=978-7-214-00081-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KE2vAAAAIAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2025-01-16 | page=53}}</ref> first secretary of CCP [[Shanghai]] municipal committee,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jin |first=Fu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8B0vEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ke+Qingshi&pg=PT250 |title=A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century III |date=2021-07-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-38442-0 |language=en}}</ref> mayor of Shanghai, the first political commissioner of [[Nanjing Military Region]], first secretary of CCP East China Bureau, and vice premier of the State Council. Ke was a member of 8th CCP politburo.

On April 9, 1965, Ke died in [[Chengdu]]. When the [[Cultural Revolution]] ended he was criticized because he was one of the few people that knew Mao's plan of purging Liu Shaoqi.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|550}}

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