Hu Yu Chi's Collected Works, Volume 4

Author: Hu Yuzhi
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Features: Comrade Hu Yuzhi was born on September 9, 1896, in Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. After 1911, he attended Shaoxing Prefecture Middle School, where he was influenced by Mr. Lu Xun. In 1914, he was admitted to the editorial department of the Shanghai Commercial Press as an apprentice and studied diligently on his own. He was influenced by the New Culture Movement and, in 1919, participated in the struggle supporting the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai. He also contributed a series of articles to The Eastern Journal, advocating science and democracy. He actively engaged in social activities, founded the Shanghai Esperanto Society, and introduced literary works from Russia and other minority ethnic groups. Throughout his life, the works he wrote and published appeared in various domestic and Southeast Asian newspapers and magazines. Except for a few that were published as separate books, most were not compiled into collections, and many articles were published under pseudonyms or without authorship, making it difficult to gather them all. Now, from the collected five to six million words, five hundred forty-six articles have been selected, along with works such as Impressions of Moscow and The Young Airman, totaling about twenty-two to twenty-three million words, and compiled into six volumes. A Study of the Indonesian Grammar is included only as its preface, as it is a specialized work, and translations are not within the scope of this collection. The selected articles are designed to reflect the author's thoughts and views at different periods. To preserve the historical originality, no changes were made to the collected texts during editing, except for correcting typographical errors and replacing foreign names, geographical names, and other proper nouns that differ significantly from the currently accepted translations. Discussions on domestic and international politics and culture (press and publication, language and writing, literature and arts), as well as commemorative articles, are arranged in chronological order by the year of writing and publication and divided into five parts:
1. 1915–1931 (Striving for Enlightenment)
2. 1932–1937 (Urging for Resistance and Saving the Nation)
3. 1938–1945 (Persisting in Resistance, Unity, and Progress)
4. 1946–1985 (For Establishing and Building a New China)
The fifth part consists of essays and fiction.