was accused of desecrating the portrait of Mao and was sentenced for life. Rehabilitation and death In 1979, Hu Feng was released from prison. In September 1980, he was partly rehabilitated when the CCCPC overturned its decision on the "Hu Feng Counter-revolutionary Clique", yet CCCPC did not overturn previous accusations towards Hu Feng. He was then made a standing member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and restored as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a member of the China Writers Association. Hu Feng died of cancer in Beijing on June 8, 1985. China's Ministry of Public Security cancelled some of his accusations in April 1986, and CCCPC cancelled all accusations in June 1988. Works and translations Besides his occupation as an editor, Hu Feng was also a translator and literary theorist. In 1935, Hu Feng translated Yang Kui's story from Japanese into Chinese (). He also translated some stories written in Japanese by authors from Taiwan and Korea, which are altogether published in the collection Shan Ling ("The Mountain Spirit", ) in April 1936. Hu Feng published several theoretical works in the 1940s. In 1941, he published Lun Minzu Xingshi Wenti ("On National Forms", ). In 1943, he published Minzu Zhanzheng Yu Wenyi Xingge ("The National War and the Disposition of Literature and Art", ). In 1948, he published Lun Xianshizhuyi De Lu ("On the Road of Realism", ). See also Lu Xun Zhou Yang League of Left-Wing Writers Sufan movement References Denton, Kirk A. The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling (Stanford University Press, 1998). Hung, Y.Y. Ruth, Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930–1955 (SUNY Press, 2020). Shu, Yunzhong, Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School (SUNY Press, 2000). Zhi, Mei, F: Hu Feng's Prison Years (Verso, 2013). 1902 births 1985 deaths Chinese art critics People from Huanggang Republic of China writers People's Republic of China writers Writers from Hubei Keio University alumni