Chen Wangdao, formerly known as Chen Shenyi, 19 1 1 was born in a peasant family in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province in February. 19 15 studied in Japan, studying literature, philosophy, law, etc. Study hard the classic works of Marxism after class. 1965438+ Chen returned to China in May 2009, worked as a Chinese teacher in "Zhejiang No.1 Normal School" in Hangzhou, and actively participated in the New Culture Movement. At the end of the year, he received the manuscript and Japanese version of the Producers' Party Manifesto (hereinafter referred to as the Manifesto) invited by the editorial department of Weekly Review. After performing the task, he immediately returned to Fenshuitang village in the west of Yiwu county, his hometown, and devoted himself to studying Marxism to prepare for the translation of the Declaration. In order to be safe and prevent external interference, he cleaned up a narrow wooden shed in his hometown, turned it into a "study" for writing, and began his "hard journey" of secretly translating books.

1920 In March and April, he completed the translation of the whole book according to the Japanese version of the Declaration and the English version borrowed by Chen Duxiu from the Beijing Library through Li Dazhao. In August of the same year, the first Chinese version of the Declaration was finally published.

This is a booklet printed on a white newspaper slightly smaller than 32 inches. Length18cm, width12cm. In addition to the title, there are several lines of fine print on the cover from right to left: The First Series of Socialist Studies, Co-authored by maggs and Angus, and Translated by Chen Wangdao. Marx's micro-side bust is printed on the cover. He sits there with his arms bent and looks at the left front. The bottom is printed with the words "maggs" from right to left. This book has no title page, messy words and no table of contents. Text ***56 pages, each page 1 1 line, each line is 36 words. Traditional Chinese characters and new punctuation are used, and the margin text of "Producer's Declaration" is printed on the margin. The book is mainly free translation, and many new terms, technical terms and chapter titles such as "aristocrats", "common people", "religion", "socialism" and "philosophy of poverty" are in English with brackets, so the original English texts can be seen everywhere in the book. It is worth noting that due to the negligence of typesetting, the title of the cover book "Manifesto of Party Property" was wrongly printed as "Manifesto of Party Property". The first edition of this book was presented with 1000 copies, and in September, it was printed with 1000 copies. The title of the cover was changed to "Manifesto of Producers' Party", and the background of Marx's portrait turned blue. Strictly speaking, this is only a reprint, but the copyright page of Wind III is also printed with the words "1September 2020".