Legendary Carpenter’s Ups and Downs in Secrets, Part I

Aired on July 10, 2012 by Shanghai TV Documentary Channel The Past Program at 20:30 lasting 21 minutes.   Re-aired on August 8, 2012

Legendary Carpenter’s Ups and Downs in Secrets, Part II

Aired on July 11, 2012 by Shanghai TV Documentary Channel The Past Program at 20:30 lasting 21 minutes.     Re-aired on August 9, 2012

Title： The Past

Tu Zuochao’s photo

He used to work as a carpenter but unconsciously later on he became a hero behind the scene up and down in the vast sea of spy war.

Shenghua Tu： He had received secret service trainings, such as shooting, assassination and driving, and also secret writing and use of poison, etc.

What was the incident that had led to his life long connection with radio transceiver? Tonight, we listen to what The Past says.

Screen cuts from The Eternal Wave (towards end 1948. This is an earliest PRC spy movie in 1958 with an audience by end 2014 over 700 million）

Shanghai CCP underground leader says to the hero Li Xia: “Now we have 2 telegrams of the most important intelligence. They are concerned with the PLA （the People’s Liberation Army led by CCP）crossing the Yantze River (to occupy Nanjing, the capital city of the Republic of China). They must be sent out within 24 hours.”

Li Xia: “Comrade Sun, you just give this job to me.”

In 1958, the famous actor Sun Daolin starred the movie entitled The Eternal Wave and the movie was presented. The movie was about the CCP underground work and impressed the audience strongly.

Li Xia’s last radio message: “Farewell, comrades. I miss you all.”

The hero Li Xia on the new Chinese cinema screen thus became a most unforgettable image of the CCP underground workers. The original figure of Li Xia was Li Bai, a CCP undergrounder who had hidden in Shanghai for a long time for our Party’s secret services during the anti-Japan war time (1937-1945).