Hu Qiaomu

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.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Hu.
Hu Qiaomu
胡乔木
Born(1912-06-04)June 4, 1912 Republic of China
DiedSeptember 28, 1992(1992-09-28) (aged 80)
NationalityChinese
CitizenshipPeople's Republic of China
EducationNational Chekiang University
Tsinghua University
OccupationPrivate 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.
EraMaoist China
EmployerPeople's Daily
OrganizationCommunist Party of China
Known forPrivate Secretary for Mao
revolutionary
Socialist
Communist

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.

Hu Qiaomu
Traditional Chinese胡喬木
Simplified Chinese胡乔木

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
  1. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik "Party Historiography" in Using the Past to Serve the Present: historiography and politics in contemporary China, Jonathan Unger, ed. (M.E. Sharpe: New York) 1993, p. 154

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