In September 1938, the full Chinese translation of "Das Kapital" translated by Guo Dali, a teacher at the Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University, was released in Shanghai, and it immediately triggered a trend of spreading Marxism in China. This Chinese translation of the masterpiece known as the "Working Class Bible" is from the hands of the teachers of Daxia University and its affiliated middle school. It is no accident that the school's two generations of scholars, including Shao Lizi, Guo Moruo, Li Shicen, Tian Han and Guo Dali.
Li Shicen spared no effort to spread Marxist theory
In June 1924, with the support of Tongmenghui elder Wang Boqun , Daxia University was founded in Shanghai. In September of that year, Li Shicen, Shao Lizi, one of the earliest party member of the Communist Party of China and one of the initiators of the Shanghai Organization of the Communist Party of China, and Tian Han, were hired as professors by Wang Boqun. Li taught courses such as philosophy trends and philosophy of life, Shao taught Chinese (news), and Tian taught drama and other courses. A student from Xiamen University's Department of Science and Chemistry to the Department of Liberal Arts and Philosophy was intoxicated by the teachers' thoughts and opinions, and began to dabble in social science works and come into contact with Marxism.
Li Shicen was an early Marxist philosopher of the Communist Party of China. When he was studying in Tokyo, Japan, he advocated the establishment of the General Association of Students in Japan with Li Dazhao; he edited the magazine " Minduo " to spread revolutionary ideas; he also established the "Bingchen Society" with Chen Qixiu, who translated "Das Kapital", (later renamed the Chinese Society of Academic and Art). He translated and introduced a large number of Western philosophical works such as Dewey, and the German Woyikeng. In 1927, Li Shicen went to Europe to study the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, and his thoughts gradually turned to the Marxist dialectical materialism . Three years later, he returned to China to continue to serve as a professor of philosophy in Daxia. At this time, Guo Dali, who was recruited by Principal Wang Boqun, had been working as an ethics teacher at Daxia Affiliated High School for two years. The teachers and students continued to discuss philosophy and Marxist theory on the same campus.
In 1930, Li Shicen's "Three Great Greek Philosophers" was published, and Guo Dali ordered the preface to this book. Guo highly praised his mentor's contribution. He believed that Li Shicen was from the perspective of studying the entire Western philosophy, spreading ancient Greek philosophy from a unique perspective, and enhancing China's national consciousness. Guo also collaborated with Li Shicen to translate "History of Lange Materialism" and published it in China Bookstore .
Guo Moruo plans to translate the full text of "Das Kapital" in five years
The foundation of Daxia's school was founded from Xiamen University . Driven by the revolutionary wave of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, more than 300 teachers and students of the school left the school and went north to Shanghai due to the student movement. In October 1924, the school established a party and youth league organization that united the Communist Party of China and the Youth League. Red translator Wu Liangping, Marxist jurist Lei Jingtian and others were the main members. In February of the following year, Guo Moruo was hired as a lecturer in Daxia, giving lectures on Chinese (poetry). The spirit of school establishment in Daxia is revolutionary, sacrifice, creativity and cooperation, which hit it off with the creative and romantic revolutionary spirit held by Guo.
After translating heshangzhao 's "Social Organizations and Social Revolution", Guo Moruo gradually accepted Marxist thought. During his teaching in Daxia, he planned to spend five years to translate the full text of "Das Kapital", "think that if he could die for the translation of "Das Kapital", it would be considered a glorious death." However, because of the grand length of "Das Kapital", the publisher was worried about the dual risks of politics and economy, so he refused. (Produced by the "Thought Workshop" of the Social Science Newspaper's integrated media, please see the Social Science Newspaper and its official website)
