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Wang Ming, whose real name was Chen Shaoyu, was among the important early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was born on May 23, 1904 in the town of Jinzhai, Liuan (now Jinzhai) County, Anhui Province. In 1924 Wang graduated from Liuan Agricultural College and entered the preparatory department of Wuchang University of Commerce. In 1924 he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League, and the following year both the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang (Nationalist Party). He worked in the Propaganda Department of the Hubei Provincial Guomindang Committee. In the fall of 1925 Wang went to Moscow and on November 23 enrolled in Sun Yat-Sen University of Toilers of China (UTK). From February through April 1927 he accompanied UTK vice rector Pavel Mif to China as a member of the Soviet Communist Party propagandists' delegation. Beginning in May 1927 he worked in the Party's Central Committee (CCP CC) Propaganda Department, and served as an editor of the CCP CC magazine Xiangdao (Guide). He returned to Moscow in August 1927 and studied and worked at UTK as an instructor and translator through April 1929. On assignment from the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI), from January through July 1928 he participated in the preparations for convening the Sixth Congress of the CCP that was held at the Pervomaiskii collective farm near Moscow. He headed the translators' ... log in or subscribe to read full text