Chu Anping

Chu Anping (November 5, 1909 - disappeared in September 1966), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, was a modern Chinese scholar and intellectual. Member of China Democratic League and member of Jiusan Society. Born into a distinguished family, he studied in the UK and later served as a professor at Fudan University. A famous critic during the Republic of China, he was the president and editor-in-chief of "Observation". He was accused of leaking military secrets, which led to the magazine being seized. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as manager of Xinhua Bookstore, editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily, and deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Jiusan Society. In 1957, in response to the policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend", he published the article "Some Opinions to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou" (i.e., "Party in the World"). Mao Zedong was dissatisfied with this and issued a rebuttal, and quickly launched an anti-rightist movement. Chu Anping was knocked down as a typical rightist, and his family and many related people were implicated. In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, Chu Anping was persecuted and disappeared, and was later pronounced dead. After 1978, 550,000 rightists were rehabilitated, but Chu Anping is still one of the "five major rightists" at the central level who refuse to be corrected.