Yü P'ing-po (1899-), essayist, poet, critic, scholar, and professor. He was best known for his writings on the Hung-lou-meng and for the nation-wide campaign against them and him in 1954. A native of Tech'ing, Ghekiang, Yü P'ing-po was born into a family which had a long tradition of scholarship and literary endeavor. He was the […]

Ch'en Po-ta 陳伯達 Ch'en Po-ta (1905-) was known as one of the Chinese Communist party's leading spokesmen on international Communist affairs and the interpreter of the political thought of Mao Tse-tung in such works as Mao Tse-tung on the Chinese Revolution. He drafted many of the editorials in the Jen-min jih-pao [people's daily] and edited […]

Ai Ssu-ch'i 艾思奇 Ai Ssu-ch'i (1905-22 March 1966), ideologue, became prominent in the Chinese Communist movement as a popularizer of Marxist-Leninist theories in such works as his Ta-chung che-hsueh [philosophy for the masses] and in his articles in the Communist party magazine Hsueh-hsi [study]. Virtually nothing is known of Ai Ssu-ch'i's family background or his […]