biography
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Li Dazhao
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also spelled Li Ta-chao
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pronunciation:
[lee dajow]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1927)
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| biography:
| One of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, whose interpretation of Marxism as applied to China had a profound influence on Mao Zedong. Appointed head librarian of Beijing University and professor of history (1918), he had the young Mao as a library assistant, and founded one of the first of the Communist study circles which in 1921 were to form the Communist Party. In 1927, when the Manchurian military leader Chang Tso-lin (1873–1928), then occupying Beijing, raided the Soviet Embassy, Li was captured and executed. |
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