Qu Qiubai
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Qu Qiubai (1899 - June 18 1935) was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1920s and important Chinese Marxist writer and thinker.
Qu spent much of his early life in Moscow and was heavily influenced by Stalin. He rose to be General Secretary of the Chinese communist party by 1927. The Canton commune uprising of December 11, 1927 and other uprisings occurred during his tenure and Qu was held to be inciting them deliberately.
Qu was arrested and put to death by the Kuomintang in February 1935. Qu was posthumously heavily criticised as a "renegade" during the Cultural Revolution. The Central Committee absolved him in 1980 and today he is held in very high regard by the Party. Tsi-an Hsia writing in The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (published 1968) described Qu as "the tenderhearted Communist".
Qu was also partially responsible for the development of the sin wenz system of Mandarin romanization.
There is a Qu Qiubai museum in his native town of Changzhou.
| Preceded by: Chen Duxiu | General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 1927–1928 | Succeeded by: Xiang Zhongfa |
