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Tse-tsung Chow
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Professor of East Asian Languages, Literature, and History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China and others.

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Portrait of Chen Duxiu wearing a traditional Chinese garment, facing forward with a neutral expression against a plain background.
Chen Duxiu was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; 1921) and a major leader in developing the cultural basis of revolution in China. He was removed from his position of leadership in 1927 and was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. Chen was born to a wealthy family. His father,…
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