Chen Duxiu

American  

[juhn doo-shyoo] / ˈdʒʌn ˈduˈʃyu /

(Wade-Giles) Ch'en Tu-hsiu

noun

1. 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Example Sentences

Mr. Yan the tenor starring in “Red Boat,” said he has found it easy to connect with his character, Chen Duxiu, a founder of the party.

From New York Times

But no one embodied the revolutionary fervor more than Chen Duxiu, a dean at the university, who joined a Marxist study group there and published a journal, called New Youth, in which he wrote, “I, with tears, place my plea before the fresh and vital youth, in the hope that they will achieve self-awareness and begin to struggle. What is this self-awareness? It is to be conscious of the value and possibility of one’s young life.”

From The New Yorker

Chen Duxiu might have recognized this dynamic.

From The New Yorker

Chen’s lawyer, He Huixin, wrote a lengthy defense of his client, citing an argument put forward in support of Chen Duxiu, a Communist Party co-founder charged with similar crimes by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist regime in 1933: that criticism doesn’t necessarily equate to subversion.

From Time

He noted the same reasoning was put forward in 1933 on behalf of Chen Duxiu, a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, who was accused of threatening the state by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government.

From Time