1. Li Shizeng, born Li Yuying, was an educator, promoter of anarchist doctrines, political activist, and member of the Chinese Nationalist Party in early Republican China.
10 Facts About Li Shizeng
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Li Shizeng organized cultural exchange between France and China, established the first factory in Europe to manufacture and sell beancurd, and created Diligent Work-Frugal Study programs which brought Chinese students to France for work in factories.
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Li Shizeng announced that he would break with family tradition and would not pursue an official career.
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Li Shizeng called for deeper reforms such as stage sets rather than bare stage and allowing men and women to act on the same stage.
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Li Shizeng felt that beancurd, would appeal to the French public as characteristically Chinese.
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Li Shizeng offered free meals to Chinese students, who gathered to discuss and debate revolutionary strategy.
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Li Shizeng arrived back in France with five workers, and a supply of soybeans and coagulant.
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Li Shizeng served as a cochairman of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an offshoot of the Bergson Group, which lobbied the US government and took out advertisements in newspapers urging American intervention to save European Jews.
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Li Shizeng was given a large funeral ceremony and buried there.
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Li Shizeng became his partner but they did not marry.