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Wang Fanxi’s Legacy Honored in Leeds | Leeds News
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A blue plaque is being funded to honor Wang Fanxi, the brilliant Chinese Trotskyist exiled from China in 1949 who spent his final decades in Leeds, where he became a revered intellectual and activist. Once a CCP member turned Trotskyist, he was imprisoned, expelled, and later found refuge in Britain, where he tirelessly promoted workers’ rights, critiqued Maoism, and mentored the Chinese immigrant community. Praised as a “mobile library of the Chinese Revolution,” his archives now reside at the University of Leeds. With over 700 pounds raised toward a 900-pound goal, the plaque will mark his legacy in Meanwood or at the Brotherton Library — a tribute to a man whose life and ideas continue to inspire across continents.
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