Chen Duxiu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Chen Duxiu

1st General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1879

Place of Birth: Huaining County, Anhui, China

Date of Death: 27-May-1942

Profession: writer, politician, professor, journalist, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Chen Duxiu (Chinese: ???; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Tu-hsiu; October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary socialist, educator, philosopher and author, who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (with Li Dazhao) in 1921, serving from 1921 to 1927 as its first General Secretary.
Chen was a leading figure in both the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and the May Fourth Movement for scientific and democratic developments in early Republic of China.
Expelled from the Communist Party in 1929, he was for a time the leader of China's small Trotskyist movement. Chen's ancestral home was in Anqing, Anhui, where he established the influential vernacular Chinese periodical New Youth (Xin Qingnian).