Zhu Zhixin ( zh, c=, p=Zhū Zhíxìn, j=Zyu1 Zap1 Seon3, s=朱执信, t=朱執信; 12 October 1885 – 21 September 1920) was a Chinese revolutionary author and close colleague of

Sun Yatsen Sun Yat-senUsually known as Sun Zhongshan () in Chinese; also known by several other names. (; 12 November 186612 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) an ...

. He was a member of the

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. Zhu made a name for himself for a series of written debates with reformist

Liang Qichao Liang Qichao (Chinese: 梁啓超; Wade–Giles: ''Liang2 Chʻi3-chʻao1''; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Lèuhng Kái-chīu''; ) (February 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, jour ...

, where he advocated a single

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, revolution against the

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, and the establishment of a Chinese republic. In 1905 he provided the first Chinese translation of

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

and

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
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''. In 1918 he decided to forgo further military affairs and follow cultural and ideological pursuits. Zhu was a gifted writer and polemicist known among other writers. Zhu and

Liao Zhongkai Liao Zhongkai (April 23, 1877 – August 20, 1925) was a Chinese-American Kuomintang leader and financier. He was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party (KMT–CCP) United Front in the 1920s. He was assassin ...

helped Sun Yat-sen negotiate an alliance with the

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in 1920, eventually giving rise to the

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. After his untimely death in 1920,

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helped establish the Zhixin Memorial School in

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.Vol I Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard Joseph K. H. Cheng, ''Biographical Dictionary of Republican China'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967): 440-443. On 14 May 2021, asteroid 256698 Zhuzhixin, discovered by astronomers

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and

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with the

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in 2008, was by the

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in his memory.
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