Hu Feng

"A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and a case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure. In this is book, Ruth Y. Y. Hung provides a study of Hu Feng (1902-1985) as a critic, writer, and editor within the context of the People's Republic of China's political ascendancy. A member of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, Hu rose to fame in the 1940s and became a representative persecuted intellectual soon after 1949. "The Hu Feng Case" of 1955--more than a decade before the Cultural Revolution--was a significant, large-scale campaign of int...