Zhuo Lin

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Zhuo Lin (卓琳) (Wade-Giles: Chuo Lin or Cho Lin) (* 1916 in Yunnan Province) was the third wife of Deng Xiaoping.

The daughter of an industrialist in Yunnan Province, she became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1938, and a year later married Deng in front of Mao Zedong's cave dwelling in Yan'an. They had five children - three daughters (Deng Lin, Deng Nan, Deng Rong) and two sons (Deng Pufang, Deng Zhifang).