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Qu Qiubai (瞿秋白) (1899 - June 18 1935) was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1920s and important Chinese Marxism|Marxist writer and intellectual|thinker.

Qu spent much of his early life in Moscow and was heavily influenced by Joseph Stalin|Stalin. He became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist party by 1927. He organised revolutions and uprisings such as the Guangzhou Uprising of December 11 1927.

Qu was arrested and put to death by the Kuomintang in February 1935. Qu was posthumously heavily criticised as a "renegade" during the Cultural Revolution. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China|Central Committee absolved him in 1980 and today he is held in very high regard by the Party. Tsi-an Hsia writing in The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (published 1968) described Qu as "the tenderhearted Communist".

Qu was also partially responsible for the development of the Latinxua Sinwenz|Sin Wenz system of Standard Mandarin|Mandarin romanization.

There is a Qu Qiubai museum in his native town of Changzhou.

From its Russian translation, Qu also translated the official Chinese version of The Internationale, the singing of which is banned today in China.

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succession box | before = Chen Duxiu | title = General Secretary of the Communist Party of China | years = 1927–1928 | after = Xiang Zhongfa
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