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Li Dazhao (or Li Ta-chao) (1888–1927)| Chinese revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, and his interpretation of Marxism as applied to China had a profound influence on Mao Zedong. In 1927, when the Manchurian military leader, Zhang Zuolin (Chang Tsolin), then occupying Beijing (Peking), raided the Soviet Embassy, Li was captured and executed. |
| Appointed head librarian of Beijing University in 1918 and professor of history in 1920, he had the young Mao as a library assistant, and founded one of the first of the communist study circles that, in 1921, were to form the Communist Party. |
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