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Qu Qiubai, whose real name was Qu shuang, was one of the most prominent leaders of the first generation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Qu was born in the town of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, on June 18, 1899. In 1916 he entered a special Russian-language school in Beijing. He soon became a cofounder of the patriotic magazines Xin shehui (New society) and Rendao (Human Path). He went to Moscow in January 1921 as a correspondent for the Beijing newspaper Chenbao (Morning), and in that capacity attended the Third World Congress of the Comintern in June-July 1921. While in Moscow Qu enrolled in the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) and served as a student-translator and an assistant in the social studies Department. He joined the CCP in Moscow in 1922. In November-December of that year he attended the Fourth World Congress of the Comintern as an interpreter for the Chinese delegation. He returned to China in the spring of 1923. In June 1923 he attended the Third CCP Congress in Canton and afterwards became editor-in-chief of the CCP Central Executive Committee (CEC) magazine Xin qingnian (New Youth) and a new journal, Qianfeng (Vanguard). Beginning in January 1925 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CCP (CCP CC). He was one of the organizers of the labor movement in shanghai, and in 1925 he founded the CCP CC newspaper Rexue ribao ... log in or subscribe to read full text