Zhu Zhixin (revolutionary)

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Zhu Zhixin

Zhu Zhixin (朱执信) (12 October 1885 – 21 September 1920) was a colleague of Sun Yatsen in his early organizing of the anti-Manchu revolutionary party the Tong Meng Hui and helped Sun develop and spread his revolutionary philosophy. In 1918 he decided to forgo further military affairs and follow cultural and ideological pursuits. Zhu was a gifted writer and polemicist known among other writers. After his untimely death in 1920, Wang Jingwei helped establish the Zhixin Memorial School in Guangzhou.[1]

On 14 May 2021, asteroid 256698 Zhuzhixin, discovered by astronomers Quanzhi Ye and Hung-Chin Lin with the Lulin Sky Survey in 2008, was named by the Working Group Small Body Nomenclature in his memory.[2]

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  1. ^ Vol I Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard Joseph K. H. Cheng, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967): 440-443.
  2. ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021. (Bulletin #1)
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