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 1905 he provided the first Chinese translation of

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and

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''. 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,

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helped establish the Zhixin Memorial School in

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.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. On 14 May 2021, asteroid 256698 Zhuzhixin, discovered by astronomers Quanzhi Ye and Hung-Chin Lin with the

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in 2008, was by the

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in his memory.

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