The introduction of Marxist theory to China was relatively late, and the names of Marx and Engels were introduced by British missionary Timothy Richard in 1899 in the “Great Classmate” published in the Gazette of Nations; and the people learned that Marx was the founder of socialism through the New People Series edited by Liang Qichao in 1902. Initially, the introduction of Marxist theory was mainly through Kuomintang (KMT) members such as Sun Yat-sen, Zhu Zhixin, Ma Junwu, Liao Zhongkai, Hu Hanmin and Dai Jitao. In China, it was after the October Revolution that Marxist theory was really widely disseminated as a weapon to transform society. Mao Zedong once pointed out: “The October Revolution sent us Marxism-Leninism…”
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