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On June 14, 1919, young Mao Zedong founded The Shian Kian Weekly Review (湘江评论) to publicize Marxism in Changsha.
The character Shi Xiangyun from the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber takes the first character of her given name from this river.
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