Before the Cultural Revolution, Ai Ssu-ch'i (1910-1966) was one of
Communist China's foremost Marxist philosophers, second only to
Chairman Mao himself. Ai was attracted to Marxism-Leninism as a
young student in China and Japan, and wrote numerous books and
articles seeking to explain the complexities of the philosophy in
language everyone could understand. His writings were enormously
popular during the 1930s and 1940s, and went through many printings
despite continuous harassment from Kuomintang censors. This volume
is the first full-length study of Ai Ssu-ch'i. In spite of his
popularity, Ai has largely been ignored in recent histories of the
Chinese Communist movement, because his importance lies in his
function as a popularizer rather than as an original thinker.
However, it can be shown that Mao and other leaders of the movement
were influenced by him, and his writings and translations certainly
helped to attract many young Chinese intellectuals to the Communist
cause. The recent flood of reminiscence literature in China has
reserved a special place of prominence for Ai Ssu-ch'i. This is not
only because he was so admired by Mao, but also because he devoted
his life so enthusiastically and wholeheartedly to the Party.
Joshua Fogel traces the pattern of this devotion via Ai's crucial
role in spreading Marxist-Leninist thought among Chinese
intellectuals.
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