Abstract
This introductory chapter considers the famed writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke's meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Li Hanjun, to discuss the preparation for the convention of the party. In April 1921, Ryunosuke travelled to Shanghai to interview Hanjun about the impending first congress of the party. Li Hanjun, an acclaimed theoretician of socialism in China, was asked by the Communist International (Comintern) to convene the first national congress of the CCP. He began by inviting members from various cities where he had been actively working in propaganda on behalf of socialist theory primarily via the newspapers and magazines of Shanghai. He also appealed to Akutagawa for the need for a socialist revolution in China, saying that “political revolution has been powerless to reform China.”
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