Hu Feng

Deceased Person

1902 – 1985

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Who was Hu Feng?

Hu Feng was a Chinese writer and literary and art theorist. He comes from Qichun in the province of Hubei. In 1929, he went to study in Japan. In 1933, he was expelled from Japan and he joined the League of the Left-Wing Writers in China in Shanghai. He was friends with Lu Xun. It was 1937, after the Second Sino-Japanese War, the journal Qiyue 七月 out. Further stations of his life were Wuhan and Chongqing. He criticized the way Mao Zedong's notions of realism in art and literature had become overly politicized, losing touch with the everyday lives of the proletarian peasants whom art and literature would serve in a Marxist organization of Chinese society. Hu thus became himself a target of criticism. In 1954 he published the in the Politburo of the Communist Party of China directed the "Report on the practice and state of art and literature in recent years", also known as "Three-hundred-thousand-word letter" is designated. In 1955 he was arrested as a counter-revolutionary, detained, and released in 1979. In 1980, he was rehabilitated.

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Born
Nov 2, 1902
Qichun County
Died
Jun 8, 1985

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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