Kang Keqing (K'ang K'e-ching; Chinese: 康克清; pinyin: Kāng Kèqīng; September 7, 1911 – April 22, 1992) was a politician of the People's Republic of China, and the wife of Zhu De until his death in 1976.

[1] Kang was born to a Hakka fishing family in the township of Luotangwan (Chinese: 罗塘湾乡) Wan'an County, Jiangxi Province.

[4] In 1924, the Wan'an County Chinese Communist Party member arrived in Kang's village as part of the Northern Expedition and set up various activities to promote revolution, including plays and a night school.

[2] She was elected permanent secretary of the Luotangwan Village Women's Association (Chinese: 罗塘湾乡妇女协会) and was the first local woman to cut her hair short.

[3] Kang left home in September 1928 and joined a guerilla band seeking shelter with the Chinese Red Army.

[3] Agnes Smedley's biography of Zhu describes her as follows: ″Up from the Wanan district to the west came a delegation of Peasant Partisans, and among them was the woman leader Kang.

[8] Kang maintained contact with Foster Snow after this, even giving a speech at a 1991 conference congratulating her on being made Friendship Ambassador to China.

[citation needed] After the fall of the Gang of Four, Kang was instated as the head of the All-China Women's Federation and is credited with centralising the organisation's bureaucracy.