Japanese Scholars' Influence On A Earlier Chinese Marxist-Li Dazhao

Marxism into China is the most influential event in Chinese history on the 20th century. It changed the course of history in China, affecting more than one billion Chinese people's fate. However, Marxism is where did they come from, how into China? This issue is very ambiguous in long period of time. Before reform and opening up, academics often refer to Mao Zedong's famous quote:"salvoes of the October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism" to answer this question. After the October Revolution, Soviet Russia is the armed intervention and the tight blockade of Fourteen countries, China basically did not know the internal situation the Soviet Union.At that time, Beijing government had been told something about Soviet Union by the Chinese ambassador to Russia. Under this situation, How did the advanced intellectuals get to and accept Marxism? In the 80s of the 20th century, particular scholars began to pay attention to the problem. After years of research, academics have reached a consensus that Marxism had been introduced into China from three points of direction:east, west and north.The "West" refers to Chinese students overseas to Europe, especially those students studied in France, such as Cai He seng, Deng Xiaoping etc; "North" refers to Qu Qiubai and Bo Gu represented by those Chinese students overseas to Soviet Union.; "East" refers to Li Dazhao and Li Junhan represented by students to Japan.The article is designed to understand impact of Japanese thinkers on earlier Chinese Marxists through analyzing the rigin of Li Dazhao's thoughts. It is significant to understand details,features and inluence of the Chinese Marxizm by the way of analysing the formation and the background of Li Dazhao's Marxist view.