2021-03-11 16:35:26 GMT2021-03-12 00:35:26(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SHANGHAI, March 11 (Xinhua) China s Shanghai on Thursday announced the first batch of its revolutionary cultural relics of over 350 buildings and artifacts, as the Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrates its centenary this year.
According to the municipal bureau of culture and tourism, well-known items on the list include the site where the first CPC National Congress took place in 1921 and the Chinese edition of the Communist Manifesto translated by Chen Wangdao in 1920.
The list also contains revolutionary martyrs tombs and cemeteries, revolutionary figures former residences, and former school sites that gave birth to patriotic student movements, among others.
Film to trace life of man who translated manifesto By MA ZHENHUAN in Hangzhou | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-26 08:49 Share Chen Wangdao
Shooting began recently on Wang Dao, a film based on the story of Chen Wangdao, the translator and scholar who completed China s first translation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1920.
Chen was born in Fenshuitang village in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, in 1891. His former home in the village is now a famous red tourism attraction.
Around Spring Festival in 1920, Chen returned to Fenshuitang and lived in a woodshed, translating by the light of an oil lamp.