Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
In 1912, he entered Zhejiang No. 3 Middle School in Huzhou. From 1916 to 1919, he attended school in Nanjing with Zhang Wentian, who became another member of the 28 Bolsheviks. He taught at the left-wing Shanghai University, and married his student Zhang Qinqiu in 1924. In late 1925 and early 1926, Shen and Zhang went to the Soviet Union to attend Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. In Moscow, they had a daughter, who they left behind when they returned to China in 1930. In January 1931, at Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, Shen Zemin was made a Communist Party of China Party Secretary for the border region of Hubei, Henan and Anhui Provinces. He died there of a lung ailment two years later.