1. Hu Feng was a Chinese Marxist writer, poet and literary theorist.
17 Facts About Hu Feng
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Hu Feng was a prominent member of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
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Hu Feng was first rehabilitated in 1980 and fully rehabilitated, posthumously, in 1988.
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Hu Feng was born in Qichun, Hubei on November 2,1902, as a son of a toufu artisan.
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Hu Feng started school in his village in 1913 and entered middle school in Wuchang, capital of Hubei, in 1920.
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Hu Feng transferred to the High School Affiliated to the National Southeastern University, which was the school of writer Ba Jin.
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In 1925, Hu Feng participated in the May Thirtieth Movement, and entered Peking University later in the year.
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Hu Feng returned to Shanghai in 1933 and became both the head of publicity and the executive secretary of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
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Hu Feng stayed for a year in Guilin from March 1942 to March 1943, and returned to Chongqing after then.
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In 1945, Hu Feng became the chief-editor of the magazine Hope.
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In July 1954, Hu Feng delivered a 300,000-word report, titled "Report on the Real Situation in Literature and Art Since Liberation", to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hu Feng was detained at Qincheng Prison specified for political criminals, and in 1965 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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In January 1970, Hu Feng was accused of desecrating the portrait of Mao and was sentenced for life.
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Hu Feng was then made a standing member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and restored as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a member of the China Writers Association.
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Besides his occupation as an editor, Hu Feng was a translator and literary theorist.
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In 1935, Hu Feng translated Yang Kui's story The News Deliverer from Japanese into Chinese.
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Hu Feng translated some stories written in Japanese by authors from Taiwan and Korea, which are altogether published in the collection Shan Ling in April 1936.