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Oct 08, 1879 Huaining County, Anhui, China Died on 27 May 1942 (aged 62)
1st General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
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About Chen Duxiu
- Chen Duxiu (Chinese: ???; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Tu-hsiu; October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary socialist, educator, philosopher and author, who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (with Li Dazhao) in 1921, serving from 1921 to 1927 as its first General Secretary.
- Chen was a leading figure in both the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and the May Fourth Movement for scientific and democratic developments in early Republic of China.
- Expelled from the Communist Party in 1929, he was for a time the leader of China's small Trotskyist movement. Chen's ancestral home was in Anqing, Anhui, where he established the influential vernacular Chinese periodical New Youth (Xin Qingnian).
