Karl Marx made easy for US youths

A popular book for teens in China on the life of Karl Marx may also stir the same zeal among American youth, despite the ideological and historical differences between the two countries.

The biography of the German philosopher was written by a veteran Chinese scholar, and its English version was launched at the 2015 BookExpo America on Friday by US publisher Benchmark Education and China Children's Press and Publication group.

The book tells a story about Marx that readers in China and the US may not be familiar with: A man who experienced many setbacks and frustrations, but also a man who valued love and family, who wrote beautiful poems, and who fought for social justice his whole life.