Xu Guangping

Xu Guangping (Chinese: 許廣平, 1898 – 1968), her former name "Xu Chongqian" (许崇媊), was a Chinese female writer, politician, and social activist.[1] She was well known as a wife of Chinese writer Lu Xun.

Xu Guangping
Portrait of Mrs. Xu Guangping.
Born(1898-02-12)12 February 1898
Panyu County, Guangdong, Great Qing
Died3 March 1968(1968-03-03) (aged 70)
Beijing,  China
NationalityQing dynasty (1898-1912) Republic of China (1912–1949) People's Republic of China (1949-1968)
Political partyChina Association for Promoting Democracy Communist Party of China
Spouse(s)Lu Xun (1927–1936)
ChildrenZhou Haiying

Biography
Lu Xun (right) sat in the front, and Xu Guangping sat behind him.

Born in Guangzhou in a family of Great Qing official. In 1918 She entered Tianjin Zhili No.1 Normal School for Women. She was participated in the activities of the Tianjin Women's Patriotic Association and the Enlightenment Society during the May 4th Movement. After graduating in 1922, she was admitted to the Chinese Language Department of Peking Female High Normal College and became a student of Lu Xun, Xu Shoushang, and Yi Peiji. She was graduated in 1926.

Xu publicly expressed her feelings for her teacher, Lu Xun, in the newspaper one year before graduation, and the couple lived together in Guangzhou in 1927, and then moved to Shanghai. In 1929, Lu Xun only son Zhou Haiying was born in Shanghai. Xu Guangping and Lu Xun lived together until his death in 1936.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xu Guangping successively served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Central People's Government Administration, the Vice-Chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, and the Vice-Chairwoman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

She was the third secretary-general of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. She was a member of the first to third Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and National People's Congress. She joined the Communist Party of China in 1960.

She donated all the works and cultural relics left by Lu Xun to the country. She died in Beijing on March 3, 1968 due to illness.

Xu Guangping wrote under the pen names Jing Song (景宋) and Xu Xia (許霞).[2]

Works
  • Letters from Two Places[3] (兩地書, 1933)

See also

References
  1. 鲁迅的夫人许广平 ——纪念她诞生120周年，逝世50周年 (Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping-commemorating her 120th birthday and 50th anniversary of her death.) The paper [2018-10-18]
  2. 鲁迅是在没有和他的第一任妻子朱安离婚的情况下和许广平同居的，所以从某种角度上来说，许广平是鲁迅的妾。不同意见：鲁迅自己并没有承认与朱安的婚姻，谈不上需要离婚。
  3. 魯迅許廣平的《兩地書》刪改知多少
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