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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
A party of thirteen
Jul 1921 — In a girls’ school in the French Concession (and, when police call, a tourist boat on South Lake), thirteen delegates — a librarian named Mao Zedong among them — found the Chinese Communist Party. Total national membership: around fifty.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Warlords and May Fourth in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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