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The former editorial office of New Youth, an influential Chinese revolutionary magazine,was restored in Beijing to mark its 100th anniversary, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Located at No. 20, Jiangan Hutong in Beijing's Dongcheng District, the 250-square-meter yard will be open to the public in May of next year. Original copies of the magazine and the manuscripts of Chen Duxiu, the magazine's founder and the co-founder of the Communist Party of China (CPC), will be exhibited.

The New Youth magazine, also known as La Jeunesse, was founded in 1915 in Shanghai. Its editorial office was moved to Beijing in 1917 when Chen was invited to teach at Peking University. The magazine's early editors included intellectual elites such as Hu Shih, Li Dazhao and Lu Xun.

The magazine began to openly support the communist movement in 1920 when its editorial office was moved back to Shanghai. With the June 1923 issue, it became the CPC's official theoretical journal. It was shut down by the Kuomintang government in 1926.

New Youth magazine played an important role in spreading the influence of the May Fourth Movement, an anti-imperialist, cultural and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919. It was also influential among the New Culture Movement, which advocated the creation of a new Chinese culture based on global and western standards, especially democracy and science.

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