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The Li family

Intro from wiki:

"Li Ta-chao, also known as Li Dazhao, was a Chinese intellectual and revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921.

Born into a peasant family in Laoting County, Hebei province, on October 29, 1889, Li became an orphan at a young age and was raised by his grandparents.

He received his education in Tianjin and later studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Li was instrumental in the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement, advocating for Marxism and Bolshevism.

He became the head librarian at Peking University and influenced many students who later became important communist leaders, including Mao Zedong.

Li's ideas, which emphasized the central role of China's impoverished peasantry in the revolution, formed the basis of Mao's revolutionary thinking.

In 1927, during the Northern Expedition, Li was arrested and executed by the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin at the Soviet embassy in Beijing.

His execution marked the end of his life, but his legacy as a seminal Marxist thinker and one of the most venerated Chinese communist martyrs continued to influence Chinese politics and ideology."

He was from one of the Triads families that were highly active during the turmoil in China in the early 1900's, and was approached by certain "Financiers", to help set up the Communist party in China. They use crime families to assist, because they have existing ratlines, for vice, smuggling, laundering, and most important, blackmail.

One of his sons, Li Baohua (1909–2005) served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 1978 to 1982.