Feng Xuefeng

Feng Xuefeng
冯雪峰
Born	2 June 1903 Iwu, Chekiang, Great Qing (present-day Yiwu, Zhejiang, China)
Died	31 January 1976(1976-01-31) (aged 72) China
Occupation(s)	Writer and activist
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	馮雪峰
Simplified Chinese	冯雪峰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Féng Xuěfēng Wade–Giles Feng Hsue-feng IPA [fə̌ŋ ɕɥè.fə́ŋ]

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.