Li Dazhao

Patrick Fuliang Shan is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of Taming China's Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900–1931 and Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on RomanizationIntroduction1. Family and Early Years2. Pursuing a Modern Education3. The Japan Years4. Editor and Writer5. Beijing University6. Embracing Communism7. The United Front8. The Last YearsEpilogueAbbreviationsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"Shan's detailed and insightful narrative of Li's life-long political activities is impressive … Shan's book sheds much new light on his entire political journey and reappraises Li's position in the context of China's search for modernity. It is a major contribution to the expanding historiography on early Chinese communist movement." — The China Quarterly"…a meticulous, fact-oriented biography." — CHOICE"This book makes a huge contribution to the study of the early history of the Chinese Communist movement and the field of modern Chinese history in general, by chronicling in great detail the life of Li Dazhao as an intellectual, a professional revolutionary, and a cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). English-language scholarship on Li Dazhao has been very limited, and this book will be indispensable reading for anyone who is seriously interested in the early history of the CCP and the origins of both the National Revolution and the Communist Revolution. This book will be indispensable reading for anyone who is seriously interested in the early history of the CCP and the origins of both the National Revolution and the Communist Revolution." — Huaiyin Li, author of The Making of the Modern Chinese State, 1600–1950