Jianxing Zhai Wenlu

Author: Li Xiji
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Publish Date: 1996-08-01
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A brief introduction to the book
History often forgets those who should not be forgotten, and Xiao San is one such figure. His life was filled with legendary tales—he once guarded the coffin of Lenin, was a friend of the young Ho Chi Minh, and a childhood classmate of Mao Zedong. He was the lifelong respected "Teacher Xiao" of Ren Bishi and married two Chinese women and two foreign girls (one from the Soviet Union and one from Germany).
He was an outstanding early activist of our party, not only participating in the establishment of the Hunan "Xinmin Xuehui" and the Paris "Youth Communist Party of China," but also specifically leading and participating in the three armed uprisings of the Shanghai workers. He fought shoulder to shoulder with Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Zhao Shiyian, Zhou Enlai, Wang Ruofei, and Qu Qiubai. Later, he shifted his focus to the publicity and cultural front in Yan'an and the northwest.
He was also a great internationalist fighter and an ambassador of international cultural exchange. In the 1920s, he joined the French Communist Party through Ho Chi Minh's introduction. In pursuit of truth, he traveled alone to the Soviet Union with a business card of the French Communist Party theorist Laporte, teaching at universities in the Far East and Moscow, where he gradually fell ill from overwork. During his time as a representative of the "Left League" in Moscow, he participated in the work of the International League of Revolutionary Writers. In the 1930s, he joined the Soviet (Bolshevik) Communist Party through Fadeyev and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union for two terms. He maintained close ties with international cultural figures such as Maxim Gorky, Aleksei Tolstoy, Fadeyev, Wolf, Romain Rolland, Marie Curie, Evans, and Sheikmet.
He dedicated his life to cultural exchange between China and other countries and the movement for world peace, traveling across the globe. He was both a translator and a renowned revolutionary poet whose poems spread widely among workers and peasants in Eastern Europe and the Far East. His pen name, "Emi Xiao," was almost household names. He possessed noble integrity, profound knowledge, and fluency in several languages, including Russian, English, French, and German, making him one of the Chinese translators of the "Internationale."
However, history played a cruel trick on him, branding such a great figure and his German-born wife, Ye Hua (Eva), who followed him to Yan'an, as "international spies," leading to their imprisonment for seven years.
Today, though the person is gone, his legacy endures. Xiao San's revolutionary achievements cannot be erased by lies or forgotten by time; they are forever etched into the milestones of revolutionary history.
This book is a honest and straightforward biography of Xiao San, with no imaginative or fictional elements. The content within is of immense historical value for the study of party history, revolutionary history, and famous figures. It will also offer a deeply moving and profound reflection on what constitutes the unwavering integrity of a revolutionary, the relentless pursuit of ideals despite adversity, and the arduous yet transformative path taken by the Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China.