Li Dazhao Collected Works

Li Dazhao is among the most honored and respected persons in Chinese History even today. He is considered to be a “Great Father” to the modern Chinese People. Li Dazhao was born on October 29, 1889. He co- founded Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921. He worked as a librarian at the Beijing University Library and was among the first of the Chinese intellectuals who supported the Bolshevik government in the USSR. Chairman Mao was an assistant librarian during Li’s tenure at the library and Li was one of Mao’s earliest and most prominent influences. By many accounts, Li was a nationalist and believed that the peasantry in China were to play an important role in China’s revolution. Under the leadership of Li, the CCP developed a close relationship with the Comintern. At the direction of the Comintern, Li was inducted into Sun Yat-sen’s Guomindang Party in 1922. Li was elected to the Guomindang’s Central Executive Committee in 1924. The CCP’s relationship with the Guomindang was controversial, particularly to many members of the CCP and the relationship gradually deteriorated. Tensions between the Comintern, the Guomindang, and the CCP presented opportunities for political intrigue and opportunism. As part of early efforts to liquidate communists, mass detentions of suspected communists began in early 1927. During the during a raid on the Soviet Embassy in Guangzhou, Li was captured and, with nineteen others, he was executed on the orders of the Manchurian General Zhang Zuolin (Chang Tso-lin) on April 28, 1927. Ishi Press has launched a program where we are reprinting out of print books in Chinese. These are books that we believe are no longer readily available in China but nevertheless should be preserved. These titles are concerned primarily with Chinese traditional medicine including Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture, Chinese massage, Chinese literature and Chinese history plus the Holy Bible translated into Chinese. These books are all entirely in Chinese. Some are in Simplified Chinese. Others are in Traditional Chinese. These are not translations except that the titles have been translated into English. Thus far, all of these books were first published before 1998 but after 1949. Read more