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Cover page of New Youth magazine featuring a black-and-white portrait in a circular frame, with red and black Chinese and French text and an illustration of students above.

Portrait of Chen Duxiu wearing a traditional Chinese garment, facing forward with a neutral expression against a plain background.

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Cover page of New Youth magazine featuring a black-and-white portrait in a circular frame, with red and black Chinese and French text and an illustration of students above.

Xinqingnian (“New Youth”) magazine

Cover page of an issue of Xinqingnian (“New Youth,” or La Jeunesse),...

From New Youth (La Jeunesse) by Chen Duxiu, 1915.

Portrait of Chen Duxiu wearing a traditional Chinese garment, facing forward with a neutral expression against a plain background.

Chen Duxiu

Chinese revolutionary Chen Duxiu.

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