Feng Xuefeng | |||||||||||
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冯雪峰 | |||||||||||
Born | 2 June 1903 | ||||||||||
Died | 31 January 1976 China | (aged 72)||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Writer and activist | ||||||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 馮雪峰 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 冯雪峰 | ||||||||||
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Feng Xuefeng (English: /ˈfʌŋ ʃwɛˈfʌŋ/ FUNG shweh-FUNG; Chinese: 冯雪峰; 2 June 1903 – 31 January 1976)[1] was a Chinese writer and activist known for his contributions to socialist literary criticism, particularly as an authority on Lu Xun. Initially a prominent member of the Chinese Communist Party, he was accused of being a counter-revolutionary and he spent the last few decades of his life living under persecution. Feng died of lung cancer during the final year of the Cultural Revolution.