CHEN DUXIU

born Oct. 8, 1879, Huai-ning county, Anhwei province, China died May 27, 1942, Chiang-ching, near Chunking Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name (Wade-Giles) Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) 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. Additional reading Howard L. Boorman (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, vol. 1 (1967); Donald W. Klein and Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965 (1971), contain basic biographies. Chow Tse-tsung, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (1960), and Research Guide to the May Fourth Movement (1963), provide detailed accounts (and bibliography) of Chen's life and career during 1915-23.