Hu Qiaomu

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Hu Qiaomu
胡乔木
Born	(1912-06-04)June 4, 1912 Republic of China
Died	September 28, 1992(1992-09-28) (aged 80)
Nationality	Chinese
Citizenship	People's Republic of China
Education	National Chekiang University Tsinghua University
Occupation	Private Secretary to Chairman Mao President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Member of Politburo of the Communist Party of China Permanent member of Central Advisory Commission President of Xinhua News Agency. Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Era	Maoist China
Employer	People's Daily
Organization	Communist Party of China
Known for	Private Secretary for Mao revolutionary Socialist Communist

Hu Qiaomu (4 June 1912 – 28 September 1992) was a sociologist, Marxist philosopher and politician of the People's Republic of China. He opposed the reform and opening up era of economic reform that followed the death of Mao Zedong.

He was the first president of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, member of Politburo of the Communist Party of China, permanent member of Central Advisory Commission, and the former president of Xinhua News Agency. He was an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Early career[]

Born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province in 1912, Hu graduated from the Department of Foreign Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, National Chekiang University in 1935. Before this, he also studied history in Tsinghua University (in Beijing) during 1930-1932.

He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1930 and the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1932. In the early part of his career, he was, in chronological order, the party secretary (Communist Youth League of China) in Xijiao District, Beiping City (now Beijing); the head of the Propaganda Department (Communist Youth League of China) in Xijiao District, Beiping City. He was a leader of anti-Japanese student and worker movement in Beiping. In 1936, he became the general secretary of Chinese Sociologist League (中国社会科学家联盟), the general secretary of Chinese Leftism Cultural League (中国左翼文化界总同盟), and a member of CPC Jiangsu Province Temporary Committee of Labours (中国共产党江苏省临时工人委员会).

From February 1941 (some say 1942) to June 1966, he was Mao Zedong's main secretary. In the beginning, his secretarial work was mainly focused on culture, but later shifted to politics. His secretarial career was ended by the Cultural Revolution.

From October 1, 1949 to October 19, 1949, he was the president of Xinhua News Agency. He also was the head of the News Office of the People's Republic of China; the vice president of Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee; the general secretary of the Central Government Culture and Education Committee; the vice general secretary of the Central Government. In 1954, he also participated in making the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. In 1956, Hu was elected to be a member of the Eighth Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and the alternative secretary of Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. In 1977, he became the first president of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and later on, advisor and the honorary president.

In 1951 Hu wrote "Thirty Years of the Chinese Communist Party".^[1]

References[]

Further reading[]

• "The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng" Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, published by Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Two Pens of CPC - Hu Qiaomu & Zhou Yang (in Chinese)
• Notes from People's Daily