A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.In this book Ruth Y. Y. Hung provides a study of Hu Feng 19021985 as a critic writer and editor within the context of the Peoples Republic of Chinas political ascendancy. A member of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party Hu rose to fame in the 1940s and became a representative persecuted intellectual soon after 1949. The Hu Feng Case of 1955more than a decade before the Cultural Revolutionwas a significant largescale campaign of intellectual persecution. Hung examines Hus work as a literary critic in this context and examines the intricate historical and sociopolitical forces against which intellectuals in his milieu in twentiethcentury China adopted Marxism as a measure of their critical position. She demonstrates how this first generation of modern Chinese literary critics practiced criticism examining the skills and arguments they used to negotiate their institutional and ideological relations with stateparty power. This exceptional case of intellectual engagement offers broader insight on critical literatures humanistic aims and methods in the context of intellectual globalization and changing political climates.