He was born in Tengchong, Yunnan, later traveling to Kowloon, Hong Kong, where he studied English and French at a Protestant school and was exposed to the Western philosophy and Marxism.
He read a great deal of Marxism, including the Communist Manifesto, in Japanese translation.
This reading is the root of Ai's most important works, Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism (歷史唯物主義與辯証唯物主義) and Philosophy for the Masses (大眾哲學)(1948).
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