Historic Marx documents on display at Guangzhou university

A first-edition copy of The Communist Manifesto in German is displayed at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.[Photo by Li Wenfang/chinadaily.com.cn]

Manuscripts written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, copies of Marx's Das Kapital in multiple languages and a first-edition copy of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, are being displayed at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth.

Also on display are a copy of a Guangzhou newspaper printed in 1912 carrying part of The Communist Manifesto in Chinese, and a copy of the English version of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong with Mao’s signature.

A first-edition copy of Marx's Das Kapital in German. [Photo by Li Wenfang/chinadaily.com.cn]

A copy of the English version of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong with Mao’s signature.[Photo by Li Wenfang/chinadaily.com.cn]

Sun Yat-Sen University is the Chinese institution with the most Marx and Engels manuscripts and the most first editions of The Communist Manifesto, in various languages.

A copy of the English version of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong with Mao's signature.[Photo by Li Wenfang/chinadaily.com.cn]

As the first modern, comprehensive university in South China, Sun Yat-Sen University had a long history of disseminating and studying Marxist theories, its Party secretary, Chen Chunsheng, said.

Marx was born in Trier, Prussia, on March 5, 1818.