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Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930-1955

Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930-1955

Hung, Ruth Y. Y.

Paperback

Series: Suny Global Modernity

Literary CriticismChinese History

ISBN10: 1438479549
ISBN13: 9781438479545
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jul 2 2021
Pages: 285
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

In this 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 intellectual persecution. Hung examines Hu's work as a literary critic in this context, and examines the intricate historical and sociopolitical forces against which intellectuals in his milieu in twentieth-century China adopted Marxism as a measure of their critical position. She demonstrates how this first generation of modern Chinese literary critics practiced criticism, examining the skills and arguments they used to negotiate their institutional and ideological relations with state-party power. This exceptional case of intellectual engagement offers broader insight on critical literature's humanistic aims and methods in the context of intellectual globalization and changing political climates.

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