Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers

From left: Hu Yepin, Rou Shi, Feng Keng, Yin Fu, Li Weisen (Li Qiushi)

The Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers were five Chinese writers associated with the League of Left-Wing Writers – Li Weisen, Hu Yepin, Rou Shi, Yin Fu, and Feng Keng – executed on 7 February 1931 by the Kuomintang in the White Terror in Shanghai.

Eighteen other communists were executed on the same day, including a pregnant woman.[1]

Some writers have suggested that the five may have been betrayed by others in the Communist Party, perhaps as a result of a power struggle.[2]

See also

  • Zong Hui, executed on 9 October 1930

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wong 1991, p. 100
  2. ↑ Wong 1991, pp. 100, 131

References

  • Wong, Lawrence Wang-Chi (1991). Politics and Literature in Shanghai: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-2924-4.
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