Failed the college entrance examination, self-taught, and stepped onto the university podium at the age of 34;
Obsessed with party history, he has traveled to the libraries, museums and archives of major cities across the country for 40 years;
Examining the literature, the power of faith makes the red historical material "come alive"...
He is Tian Ziyu, a second-level professor at the School of Marxism at Hubei University.
Tian Ziyu
In autumn and winter, Wuhan has cooled after the rain, and the golden ginkgo biloba leaves on the streets show the beauty of intensity and tranquility. Greeting the warm sun of early winter, the reporter visited the comber and inheritor of the red historical materials.
"Sometimes for days, or even longer, nothing is found. Occasionally, I found a new material and danced with pride. Tian Ziyu, 75, said that we have caught up with the new era of reform and opening up. In the early years, it was difficult to check the information, and I could only read them one by one in the old paper pile. Later, with microfilm, many libraries and archives have now been digitized, and as long as they are connected, they can read the books of major libraries at home. In the era of the country's surging progress, Tian Ziyu, who is full of silver hair, has witnessed many processes in the digital development of historical documents, and has contributed unlimited efforts to the excavation and research of red historical materials.
Since childhood, he has been obsessed with the history of the Party
Tian Ziyu was born in 1946 to a family of red revolutionaries. Since childhood, he has loved to draw, read, and write well. In a cupboard in his study, old diaries from the past were neatly arranged. When he was young, he once met with several classmates, walking from Wuhan to Honghu Lake, passing through Shaoshan, and all the way to Jinggangshan. When he was resting on the way to Shaoshan, Tian Ziyu casually drew a picture of a proud snow red plum, which is still sandwiched in a diary. At this point, he said with great interest, "Show you my paintings at that time." Before he could say anything, he got up and walked quickly to the study.
In 1965, Tian Ziyu graduated from high school, but failed the college entrance examination. At that time, Wuhan urgently needed a group of middle school teachers to select 1,000 high school graduates with good grades in the list of subjects for training. Because of his very good Chinese scores, he was selected to study at the First Normal School in Wuhan. In 1967, he was assigned to teach at Shengli Middle School in the suburbs of Wuhan.
"In middle school, I taught for 10 years." Tian Ziyu told reporters. When he first arrived at the school, the students had not yet resumed classes, and there was a lot of free time, and he could not release the scrolls, and he was addicted to books. After the resumption of classes, Tian Ziyu undertook the teaching tasks of many courses such as Chinese, art, and music, basically 10 lessons a day. In addition to the heavy teaching work, he can always try to squeeze out time to read books. At that time, the school had a library, and in order to facilitate reading, Tian Ziyu simply kept the key by himself. Every weekend, he would take a bus for more than an hour to the Wuhan Municipal Library to read literature and consult materials. In order to save lunch time, filled with water with drip glass bottles, brought two steamed buns, and stayed in the library for a whole day, which became the daily state of Tian Ziyu's weekend life.
His parents' loyalty to communism profoundly influenced Tian Ziyu and was also an important reason why he had been fascinated by the party's revolutionary history since he was a child. Through extensive reading, he found that dong biwu, Li Hanjun, Yun Daiying, Li Dazhao, and many of the party's revolutionary predecessors had received higher education. They are not only revolutionaries, but also engineers and university professors, living in superior conditions, not because they are forced to do the revolution without enough to eat or wear warm clothes. Tian Ziyu's heart could not help but have many questions: Why did they give up their good life to overthrow the old society? How to explain that the dry revolution not only has no money, but also may lose its life? Understanding these problems prompted him to study and study party history more deeply.
He was rated as an associate professor
After reading, Tian Ziyu tried to write articles. "At that time, only Wuhan Normal College belonged to the management of Wuhan City, so I hastily submitted a paper to the Journal of Wuhan Normal University, "Evidence of Tsarist Russia's Aggression in Wuhan," which was actually published." He remembers that after the publication of this debut work, he received a 20 yuan manuscript fee, compared with his monthly salary of 30 yuan at that time, which was really a big surprise.
In 1979, on the occasion of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, the 33-year-old Tian Ziyu wrote an article entitled "Wuhan in the May Fourth Period" that year, which was published in the Journal of Wuhan Normal University in the second issue of that year. "This manuscript is sprinkled with nearly 10,000 words, and it is based on the materials and memoirs I consulted in the Wuhan Municipal Library." Tian Ziyu told reporters.
Opportunity always favors those who are prepared. These two essays, written purely out of interest, later became his "stepping stones" to Wuhan Normal University (the predecessor of Hubei University). In 1980, he took to the university podium as he wished.
In order to encourage Tian Ziyu to do scientific research, the school arranged few classes for him. In his spare time, he spends his time in the library. Xu Shanguang, then secretary of the party committee of Wuhan Normal University, was particularly concerned about the growth of young scholars. During a small talk, he learned that Tian Ziyu did not have a penny of scientific research expenses, and the collection of information was all at his own expense, Xu Shanguang took out 20 yuan from his pocket to copy the materials for him. "This 20 yuan was given by him privately, which is my first scientific research fund!" Tian Ziyu's monthly salary at that time was only 40 yuan, so he has always kept this matter in mind.
In the 1980s, Tian Ziyu was recommended to the Party History Seminar of East China Normal University to receive systematic party history study, laying a solid professional foundation for future academic growth. Before and after this, he also achieved many original achievements in the study of yun daiying, Li Hanjun and other characters, and was rated as an associate professor in 1987. On July 31 of that year, the People's Daily published a report entitled "Tian Ziyu Failed the College Entrance Examination Twenty Years Ago, And In Recent Days He Became An Associate Professor of Self-Taught Talent", which for a time made Tian Ziyu's name spread throughout the north and south of the river and became a model for the vast number of young people to learn.
At that time, the loudspeaker of the Central People's Radio went straight to the factory workshop and the rural production team. In the broadcast of the mountains and the wilderness, many acquaintances heard it and called and wrote to congratulate me. Tian Ziyu told reporters. When I was not yet working in colleges and universities, I heard that the annual meeting of philosophy was held at Central China Normal University. He rushed with the school leaders to win the opportunity to observe. "At that time, I was very happy to be able to observe." At that time, Tian Ziyu never dreamed that he would one day become a university professor. Wandering in the academic ocean of colleges and universities, he was so successful that later some schools proposed to "dig" him up in a very convenient way, and Tian Ziyu did not accept it. "I originally only had high Chinese, the school hired me in an eclectic manner, and I was also one of the first second-level professors to report to the province for evaluation." Along the way, the school has been kind to me, and I must do my best to do a good job in teaching and scientific research. He said sincerely.
Lessons learned are important for first-hand identification
The May Fourth Movement was Tian Ziyu's earliest area of research. In 1979, his article "Wuhan in the May Fourth Period" was published in the Second Issue of the Journal of Wuhan Normal University, which brought an important turning point to his life and was a profound lesson in his academic career. Shortly after the article was published, Tian Ziyu read an article entitled "The May Fourth Movement in Wuhan" in the first issue of the Jianghan Forum that year. This article was written after taking the lead of the Department of Political Science of Central China Normal University and composed of teachers from Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan Army, Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute and Hubei Institute of Chemical Industry and Petroleum, and spent more than 1 year collecting newspapers, periodicals and archives in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places.
"When I compared the two articles, my face turned red at once, and I found that there were many details in my article that were wrong." Tian Ziyu did not shy away from this. At that time, his investigation of historical materials was limited to the Wuhan Library, most of which was based on second- and third-hand materials such as memoirs. The manuscripts of the writing team are very informative, the arguments are more standardized, and they are more in line with academic requirements. This made him deeply realize how important solid historical materials are, "historical materials are the soul of history, and must be based on first-hand information."
In 1999, Tian Ziyu published a monograph "History of the May Fourth Movement in Wuhan". "The book was written for a short time, and the real writing began on March 23, 1998, and ended on September 10, taking only more than 100 days, but the collection of data took nearly 20 years." Tian Ziyu said. In order to learn the lessons of the last time, Tian Ziyu attaches great importance to the collection of first-hand information. He can't remember how many times he went to Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai, visited archives, libraries, museums, and other units, and searched for the original historical features over and over again in the vast sea of historical materials. In particular, he carefully checked and checked the "Dahan Bao", "Hankou News Bao", "Guomin Xin Bao", "Hankou Xibao", and "Jiangsheng Daily" that could be seen at that time, and also conducted a dragnet search around the evidence chain of the incident.
"Although memoirs are personal experiences of the memoirer, they cannot be accurate after many years. In addition, the memory of the person's concept and cognitive limitations may obscure and distort some things. When using it, it must be combined with the original materials, mainly historical archives and materials. Tian Ziyu said. Although he collected some information on Chen Tanqiu and the May Fourth Movement, almost all articles and biographies about Chen Tanqiu mentioned that he participated in the May Fourth Movement, and some also believed that he was the leader of the movement in wuhan, but because there was no record in the press and archives, Tian Ziyu still endured the pain of cutting love and abandoned this part of the content in the manuscript.
The 40 years of Yingxue have condensed Tian Ziyu's persistent academic pursuit and unremitting efforts. Due to the detailed historical materials and strong arguments, the 270,000 words and 140 pictures in the book restore the May Fourth storm years that occurred in Wuhan more than 100 years ago, and by 2019, the "History of the Wuhan May Fourth Movement" has been republished three times. Tian Ziyu said that this is his most satisfactory book, and it is still the same. The only thing he felt inadequate was the lack of information in foreign languages, especially in economic terms.
Tian Ziyu pays attention to the history of China and also cares about the history of his hometown. Hankou is the earliest city in Mainland China to open up, since the establishment of the British (Consulate General) in 1861, Japan, Russia, France, the United States and so on have set up consulates. Diplomats of the great powers have made detailed reports on the politics, economy, culture, social customs, etc. of our country, especially in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and most of these materials are still sleeping in the relevant archives departments of these countries, and if excavated, they can more clearly present the history of the Republic of Hubei. Tian Ziyu hopes that his successors will rewrite history through the excavation of valuable historical materials and use the grand historical view to show the style of modern history in Hubei.
Expand your research field in the form of dots, lines, and surfaces
Tian Ziyu's academic journey began with the study of Yun Daiying, Li Hanjun, Dong Biwu and other party history figures. When he was a middle school teacher, Tian Ziyu began to pay attention to Yun Daiying. At the end of the 1970s, in order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, the People's Publishing Houses of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Shaanxi provinces cooperated to publish the "Series of Stories of Revolutionary Ancestors", and Tian Ziyu was invited to write the story of Yun Daiying.
This is a reading material for junior high school and elementary school students, and in order to write vividly, Tian Ziyu visits people who are familiar with Yun Daiying. "In the 1970s, there was a group of people in Beijing who were related to Yun Daiying. I wrote letters to many revolutionary predecessors and received a reply from Deng Yingchao, who recommended that I interview Yun Daiying's wife Shen Baoying and comrade-in-arms Liu Renjing. Tian Ziyu said that he admired his courage at that time, so dare to think and dare to do. In the early spring of 1979, Tian Ziyu went north to look for materials and interviewed Zhang Yu, the main compiler of Yun Daiying's diary and a senior editor of the China Youth Publishing House, and a group of other people.
"The first time I visited Shen's mother, she told me the story of Yun Daiying for several days in a row. She knew that I was going to Beijing at my own expense to collect information and insisted on buying me a return train ticket. He and Shen Baoying maintained contact for many years and affectionately called her Mother Shen. During the interview, he told reporters, "Not long ago, when I went to Beijing, when I passed Nanlishi Road, I still looked at Shen Baoying's former residence, and Shen Baoying's mother's voice and smile appeared in front of me."
A year later, he completed "Leaving Pride as a Prisoner of Chu - The Story of Yun Daiying", signed "Iron Stream". After embarking on the road of party history research, yun daiying research became one of the important topics of Tian Ziyu, and he published more than 10 papers and cooperated with others to compile the first "Yun Daiying Biography" in China.
Li Hanjun, one of the main founders of the Communist Party of China, has long been drowned in the dust of history, and some works have many improper records of Li Hanjun. Tian Ziyu began to study Li Hanjun in 1979, and strived to put the characters and activities in a specific environment and conduct realistic historical observation. He interviewed Li Hanjun's comrades-in-arms and relatives, went to Beijing, Shanghai, Japan and other places to look for historical materials, and proved with conclusive historical facts that Li Hanjun was the sower of early Marxism in China and the main founder of the early Communist Party of China.
From the beginning of attention in 1979 to the writing of the article "Li Hanjun's Contribution to the Spread of Marxism" ("Party History Research and Teaching", No. 4, 1998), Tian Ziyu spent 17 years. In 2001, the paper won the second prize of the Second Outstanding Paper award of the Chinese Communist Party History Society. Since then, he has published a number of academic works related to Li Hanjun. In 2004, he undertook the research task of the "Li Hanjun" project, a sub-project of the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation "Collection, Collation and Research of the Writings of the Early Leaders of the Communist Party of China", which made a major breakthrough in the research and filled the gap in the study of the history of the characters created by the Communist Party of China.
Tian Ziyu is good at gradually finding commonalities from the personalities of early party history figures, gradually expanding the research horizon from point to line to surface, with strong persuasiveness, embodying a rigorous attitude toward history and the spirit of seeking truth in history, thus entering the broad field of Marxism in the early spread of research in China, and also achieving gratifying achievements. For the "History of the Early Spread of Marxism in China (1918-1922)" co-published by Tian Ziyu and others in 2012, Chen Jinlong, a professor at South China Normal University, believes that the work starts from historical facts and puts forward many new insights based on new historical materials. For example, the spread of Marxism in the early days of China was the inevitable result of the ideological field of the salvation movement in modern China, not the result of the entry of foreign political forces; the main channels for the spread of Marxism in the early days of China, in addition to the channels of Japan, Soviet Russia, and Europe, were also the channels of the United States; the pamphlet "Communism and the Intellectual Class" issued in Hankou in June 1921 embodied the highest level of understanding of the basic issues of the Chinese revolution in the early days of the CPC's congress, and prepared public opinion for the birth of the Communist Party of China Qu Qiubai was not the "first person" to spread dialectical materialism in our country; the translation "Outline of Ma's Materialist View of History" published in the supplement of the Morning Post in July 1919 had already begun to be introduced; the curtain of "sinicization of Marxism" was opened in 1922; the chinese Communist Party's proposal to replace the "bourgeois democratic revolution" with the "national revolution" had the consideration of unifying with the Kuomintang's proposal, and also had the background of the Communist International, which was the original response of the Communist Party of China to Lenin's theory of the Eastern Revolution; and so on. The book is known as the "crowning work" of research in this field, and was included in the "National Library of Philosophical and Social Science Achievements" in 2011, and won the second prize of the Seventh Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research of Colleges and Universities and the first prize of the Ninth Social Science Outstanding Achievements Award of the Hubei Provincial People's Government.
Deeply cultivate the research on the early spread of Marxism
Focusing on the early spread of Marxism was the main area where Tian Ziyu, 68, continued to shine after his retirement in 2014. In 2017, Tian Ziyu was rehired back to school to preside over the compilation of the "Early Dissemination of Marxism Series", and in recent years, he has devoted almost all his efforts to the field of early Marxist dissemination research.
The early propagators of Marxism in China were initially mainly through Japanese (as well as English and German), and later translated Marxist classics through Russian. Japanese and Russian-style Marxist concepts and languages are different from modern times, and some are even very different. The relationship between context, context, and time and space in the works is quite complex, and the knowledge of many disciplines such as economics, sociology, and versionology is required for relief, evidence, and examination. In addition, the vernacular of the text is mixed, the translation of the translated text is not uniform, and the semantics of the translated text are not standard. Literature research is the most laborious and difficult part of the compilation process of this "series". Tian Ziyu and his team made a series of research interpretations of the book's edition, cover design, basic content, value and publication, and social effects. The proper nouns, concepts, characters, events, and place names in the works are based on the authoritative version of the Complete Works of Marx and Engels, and a comprehensive introduction, interpretation, and examination are made.
In their research, they found that there are about 10 kinds of translated names of Engels alone such as "Yanjier" and "Ongels", and Marx's translated names also have more than 10 kinds of "Marlukos" and "Makashi". Some concepts are different from the current interpretation, such as value, and some are solved as "price". Some nouns have very different directions in different contexts, such as "xincun" has a variety of semantics such as the new village of the Japanese warrior Koji Shito, the New Village Movement in China during the May Fourth period, the religious new village movement in the United States, and the new (rural) village of Soviet Russian socialism.
"If you are not careful, you will be confused and have hard injuries." Tian Ziyu told reporters. In the process of collation and examination, we did our best to find the first translated version of the Chinese, compare it with the original text in foreign languages, correct the errors of translation, correct typos and typos, and study the background of the version and its social effects, and the comparison between different versions, which is the biggest work of Tian Ziyu's team. The overall work "Explanatory" and "Commentary" amount to more than 3.1 million words, and a considerable part of the translations are compared with the original foreign texts, and some interpretations fill the gap in the study of the spread of Marxism in China.
After the compilation of the "series" was completed, Tian Ziyu made a long list and thanked those who had helped them from the bottom of his heart. Among them, there was his mother. Tian Ziyu's mother, Zhang Lindong, was an old eighth road, and in 1938, at the age of 15, she resolutely left the comfortable family of the Kuomintang major general and traveled thousands of miles to Yan'an. Tian Ziyu went all over the country to check the information, and his mother wrote to comrades-in-arms everywhere, asking them to help take care of it. Tian Ziyu checked the information in Beijing, Shanghai and other places, and many times lived in the homes of his mother's comrades-in-arms, saving a lot of money. Tian Ziyu went to Taiwan, the United States and other places at his own expense to check the information, and his mother also tried to provide him with financial support within his ability.
In 2020, when it was the most difficult time for the "series of compilations" to organize, the close relatives of 5 scholars in the compilation group died of illness, including Tian Ziyu's 96-year-old mother. They endured the great grief of losing their loved ones and insisted on the compilation work with tears. With the keyboard tapping, the grief is transformed into a Series of Chinese characters, "notes", and "explanations" in the study of text collation and examination...
Let the dusty historical materials "see the light of day"
In Tian Ziyu's research career, what he spent the most energy on and ran through his academic process was the collection and collation of historical materials. After experiencing the profound lesson of 1979, he attached great importance to the collection of first-hand information, and his research vision was never limited to Wuhan, and he took the initiative to go out.
Tian Ziyu lived in the south all year round, and when he went to the north in the cold winter to consult the materials, he also encountered a lot of embarrassment. One winter, I went to Beijing to collect information and lived in an acquaintance's house. As soon as he entered the door, the heating came to the face, and the host was even more warm, so he asked him to take off the cotton jacket outside, but Tian Ziyu was very embarrassed, because the sweater worn inside was already worn and hung with thread. However, this kind of life detail does not affect Tian Ziyu's academic persistence. In order to save time in searching information, he tried to improve efficiency. Once, in the Beijing library, he found that he and his neighbor were consulting the same magazine, so they temporarily "teamed up" to fight together, and within a few days they completed the common task, and the heavy joy overflowed into words.
Searching for historical materials is like finding treasure. Tian Ziyu never missed any place where valuable historical materials might be found. "Whenever we open a dusty, smelling newspaper that has turned brittle yellow, we are thrilled because we are turning over a sealed history that, thanks to our efforts, has been able to see the light of day. The hardships and joys in between are incomprehensible to ordinary people. In the afterword to the book "Li Hanjun", Tian Ziyu expressed his chest directly. In April 2002, after several efforts, Tian Ziyu won the opportunity to visit the Institute of Modern History of the "Academia Sinica" in Taipei for two months. "This visit did not have any financial support, completely self-funded, and for more than 60 days collected considerable archives and documents on the modern history of Hubei and the spread of Marxism in early China." Tian Ziyu was overjoyed. Knowing his financial situation, Taipei's friends were deeply moved, not only donated a lot of history books published in Taiwan, but also the Taipei Hubei Literature Society provided accommodation convenience for Tian Ziyu, and also gave away a large number of precious materials, so that when he returned to Han, he paid 3,000 yuan in freight due to excess luggage, but Tian Ziyu still felt that it was worth the trip. He went to Taipei eight times and collected tens of millions of words of historical materials, including more than 20 letters and reports from Dong Biwu during the Great Revolution alone. He often said, "If you find the text, you will have a foundation for research, and the level of research will go to the forefront of the country."
Going abroad is very expensive, Tian Ziyu cherishes every opportunity to participate in overseas academic seminars, always willing to spend more time to collect information, improve the "cost performance" of overseas opportunities, and never be a small family. In 2000, after attending an academic conference in San Francisco, usa, he stayed for half a month and went to the Institute of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, Columbia University, Stanford University and other universities to check the materials.
"I was lucky enough to collect the Draft Programme of the Communist International published in Hankou in 1927 at the Hoover Library at Stanford University." Tian Ziyu was rewarded with the most precious treasure. He traveled to the United States three times and collected copies of Chen Gongbo's master's thesis "The Communist Movement in China" written in 1924. Several times I went to Singapore and Japan, and found the first edition of "Communism and communism" in the Oriental Library, which is an anecdote by Chen Duxiu. He went on to travel to the libraries, museums and archives of major cities in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macao, and in the library of a middle school in Yangzhou, he found a special issue of the Wuhan Review to commemorate Lenin during the Great Revolution. Whenever he found precious historical documents, he was always excited.
In order to promote the exchange and application of historical materials, he did a lot of editing and collation work. In 2005, Tian Ziyu edited and published the "Historical Materials of the National Government", and successively edited the "Historical Materials of the Wuhan War of Resistance", planned and edited the "Historical Materials of the Wuhan Liberation War", and planned the "Historical Materials of the Early Period of the Republic of China in Wuhan". Because of the need to write the "History of the Early Spread of Marxism in China", Tian Ziyu piled up more than 100 copies of the manuscripts of the early spread of Marxism collected by the way and piled them in the study. For Tian Ziyu, who has retired, there is no plan and no ability.
In 2016, the leader of Hubei University, "Wugu Maolu", found these treasures in his study and excitedly said, "This is the original intention of the Communist Party of China!" In the Spring Festival of 2017, the then director of the Propaganda Department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee visited Tian Ziyu's home, saw the historical materials on the two walls, and proposed to organize these precious historical materials into a book. Subsequently, led by the elderly Tian Ziyu, about 70 professionals from 16 units, including Hubei University, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Great Memorial Hall of the Communist Party of China, and the Red Boat Spirit Research Center of Jiaxing University in Zhejiang, were brought together to carry out systematic research on "early transmission".
Tian Ziyu is always passionate about research work, despite suffering from grade III hypertension, grade III heart failure, and persistent atrial fibrillation, and is full of energy, leading the team to invest in this basic cultural project. In Chengdu and Lanzhou, he twice fainted and was taken to the hospital. Once the heart failure index reached 11 times the normal value, the doctor asked to be hospitalized immediately. In order to compile the work, he insisted on maintaining it with drugs and never slackened off. On April 8, 2020, after the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan was lifted, Tian Ziyu led the team members to wear masks and set off from the cherry blossoms in Luojia Mountain to the return of the Yellow Crane Tower when the snow was falling. In the past 9 months, it has traveled to more than 10 large and medium-sized cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Huzhou, Shunde and Macao, and has continuously dug deep into red resources. In the five years of spring and autumn, more than 1800 days and nights, the team of more than 30 people has traveled all over the United States, Japan and the motherland, and nearly 100 new historical materials for the spread of Marxism in the early days of China are very admirable.
On October 16, 2021, Tian Ziyu's team took a group photo at the launch ceremony. Author/Courtesy
In October 2021, the "Series of Works on the Early Spread of Marxism in China (1920-1927)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Series" )), which was selected from 151 of the 250 original texts collected and compiled into 25 million words, was first published in Han and was praised by scholars from all over the country engaged in the field of Marxism. "The Series rescued and preserved a number of very precious documents and materials, and outlined and outlined the 'explanations' and 'annotations', which are conducive to readers' reading and even more conducive to scholars' in-depth study, which is of great political and academic significance." Li Zhongjie, former deputy director of the Cpc Central Committee Party History Research Office, commented that the "Series" conscientiously explores the source of the CPC's original intention in the past hundred years and is a vivid interpretation of the great spirit of party building, such as "upholding the truth and adhering to ideals." Gu Hailiang, chief expert of the Central Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project, deputy director of the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, and professor at Peking University, said that the "Series" vividly shows how the early Marxists carried out arduous explorations before and after the founding of the Communist Party of China in connection with the theme of China's actual conditions and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and is of great value to accurately grasping the formation, refinement, and sublimation of the great party-building spirit in history.
"Of the 151 original texts, 70 percent were first editions and 80 percent were first-time encounters with contemporary readers. The concentrated, systematic, and objective presentation of the panorama of the early spread of Marxism in China has filled the gap in the spread of Marxism in China. The excavation of these red historical materials has rewritten many of the conclusions of the 'early history of communication' and restored the historical truth. Tian Ziyu was very excited at the press conference, he said, these orphans, rare books, new rare books photocopied and published, so that they come alive, incarnated into tens of millions, serving the society, is the best protection of these red cultural relics.
Looking at the results of the "Series Compilation" that has been rolled out on a full table, new research tasks are ready to be launched, and it is planned to write a 3 million-word "General History of the Early Spread of Marxism", aiming to push the study of the history of The Spread of Marxism in China to a new height, and Tian Ziyu will set sail again.
Edit: Qi Zeyao