Ye Jianying
Prominent Hakka communist leaders include: Marshal [[Zhu De]], the founder of the Red Army, later known as the People's Liberation Army; [[Ye Ting]], Commander-in-chief, [[New Fourth Army]], one of the two main Chinese communist forces fighting the [[Japanese Imperial Army]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] (the other main communist force, [[Eighth Route Army]], was commanded by Zhu De); Marshal [[Ye Jianying]], who led the overthrow of the [[Gang of Four]] in 1976, which marked the end of the [[Cultural Revolution]]; and [[Hu Yaobang]], where the memorial service for his death sparked off a pro-democracy movement which led to the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square protests]] in 1989. In Guangdong, China's most prosperous province, the "Hakka clique" () has consistently dominated the provincial government. Guangdong's Hakka governors include Ye Jianying, [[Ding Sheng (general)|Ding Sheng]], [[Ye Xuanping]] and [[Huang Huahua]].