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{{Short description|Wife of Deng Xiaoping (1916–2009)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Zhuo]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox First Lady
| name                = Zhuo Lin<br>卓琳
| image               = Madame Zhuo Lin at an arrival ceremony for the Vice Premier of China. - NARA - 183167 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize           = 
| caption             = Zhuo Lin in 1979, during a visit to the US
| order               = Spouse of the [[paramount leader]] of [[China]]
| term_label          = In role
| term_start          = 1978
| term_end            = 1989
| predecessor         = [[Han Zhijun]]
| successor           = [[Wang Yeping]]
| birth_date          = April 6, 1916
| birth_place         = [[Xuanwei]], [[Yunnan]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2009|07|29|1916|04|06}}
| death_place         = [[Beijing]], China
| nationality         = Chinese
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Deng Xiaoping]]|1939|1997|reason=died}}
| children            = {{plainlist|
*Deng Lin
*[[Deng Pufang]]
*[[Deng Nan]]
*[[Deng Rong]]
*Deng Zhifang}}
| relatives           = [[Deng Zhuodi]] (grandson)
}}
{{Chinese|c=卓琳|p=Zhuō Lín|w=Chuo Lin}}
'''Zhuo Lin''' (April 6, 1916 – July 29, 2009) was the third and last wife of [[Deng Xiaoping]], former [[Paramount leader]] of China.<ref>{{Cite book|title=[[Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China]]|last=Vogel |first=Ezra F. |authorlink=Ezra F. Vogel|date=2011|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674055445|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=754841335}}</ref>

==Biography==
Born Pu Qiongying ({{zh|s=浦琼英|t=浦瓊英|p=Pǔ Qióngyīng}}) in [[Xuanwei]], [[Yunnan]] province, she was the daughter of an industrialist who manufactured Yunnan ham.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Barboza |first=David |date=2009-07-31 |title=Zhuo Lin, the Widow of an Ex-Leader of China, Is Dead at 93 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/world/asia/31zhuo.html |access-date=2022-06-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She attended Peking University, then moved to the Chinese Communist Party [[Yan'an Soviet|base in Yan'an]], changed her name to Zhuo Lin, and then joined the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1938.<ref name=":0" /> In 1939 she married Deng in [[Yan'an]].<ref name=":Chatwin" />{{Rp|page=38}} They had five children - three daughters (Deng Lin, [[Deng Nan]], [[Deng Rong]]) and two sons ([[Deng Pufang]], Deng Zhifang).

Along with numerous other family members, Zhuo accompanied Deng Xiaoping on [[Deng Xiaoping's southern tour|his 1992 southern tour]].<ref name=":Chatwin">{{Cite book |last=Chatwin |first=Jonathan |title=The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |year=2024 |isbn=9781350435711}}</ref>{{Rp|page=38}}

She died on July 29, 2009, aged 93, in [[Beijing]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090801094133/http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-07/29/content_11793498.htm Obituary] {{in lang|zh}}

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