Hu Feng

Hu Feng and his wife Mei Zhi

Hu Feng ( 胡风 , Hú Fēng ; * 1902 ; † 1985 ) was a Chinese writer and literary and art theorist. He is from Qichun in Hubei Province . In 1929 he went to Japan to study. In 1933 he was expelled from Japan and he joined the League of Left-wing Writers of China ( Zhongguo zuoyi zuojia lianmeng中国 左翼 作家 联盟) in Shanghai. He was friends with Lu Xun . In 1937, after the Japanese attack on China , he published the magazine Qiyue七月 ("July"). Other stations in his life were Wuhan and Chongqing . His concept of realism was directed against the Mao Zedongs from Yan'an (1942) and he was the target of criticism. In 1954 he published the "Report on the Practice and Situation of Art and Literature in Recent Years" addressed to the Politburo of the Communist Party of China ( Guānyú jǐ nián lái wényì shíjiàn qíngkuàng de bàogào关于 几年 来 文艺 实践 情况 的 报告), which also as "writing the three hundred thousand words" ( Sānshíwàn yán shū三 十万 言 书) is called. He was arrested and imprisoned as a counterrevolutionary in 1955 and was not released until 1979. In 1980 he was rehabilitated.

See also

• Zhou Yang

literature

• Mei Zhi [ Méi Zhì梅志]: Q: Hu Feng's Prison Years . Translated from the Chinese by Gregor Benton . London: Verso, 2013, ISBN 9781844679676 .
• Mao Zedong : Refutation of Claim of "Uniformity of Public Opinion" (May 24, 1955). In: Mao Zedong: Selected Works , Vol. V. Beijing: Verlag für fremdsprachige Literatur , 1978, pp. 191–194; ders .: Foreword and editorial comments on the "Materials on the Counterrevolutionary Hu Feng Clique" (May and June 1955). ibid., pp. 195-202.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Hu is the family name here, Feng is the first name.