Hu Hua (December 1921 – December 1987) Profile: An outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a well-known Marxist historian and educator. Zhejiang Fenghua people. In 1938, he went to Yan'an and studied at Shaanxi North Public School, and later taught at North China Union University, North China University, and Chinese University. He has devoted his life to the teaching and research of Marxist theory, the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of the Communist Party of China, and is the main founder and pioneer of the discipline of the history of the New Democratic Revolution and the history of the Communist Party of China. He is the author of "History of China's New Democratic Revolution", "Outline of Chinese History" (co-authored with Zhai Bozan and Shao Xunzheng), "Comrade Zhou Enlai in His Youth", "History of the Nanchang Uprising" and so on. He is the chief editor of the large-scale series "Biography of Figures in the History of the Communist Party of China" (1-50 volumes), "Lecture Notes on the History of the Chinese Revolution", "Lecture Notes on the History of China's Socialist Revolution and Construction", "Historical Figures of the May Fourth Period", "Zhou Enlai's Ideological and Theoretical Contributions", etc. In 2013, a six-volume collection of Hu Hua's Collected Works was published.
Hu Hua
In October 1938, in the face of the shattering of the motherland's mountains and rivers and the danger of the Chinese nation, 16-year-old Hu Hua, as the only son of his parents' knees, resolutely bid farewell to his parents, bid farewell to Fenghua, Zhejiang, the hometown of fish and rice in Jiangnan, and rushed to the barren Yan'an in northern Shaanxi to join the anti-Japanese struggle of the whole nation led by the Communist Party of China. Since then, in the past half century, no matter how many guns and bullets have rained down, hunger and cold have been forced, no matter how wind, frost, rain, snow, and bumpy roads, whether in the period of the new-democratic revolution or in the period of socialist construction, he has never forgotten his original intention of seeking happiness for the Chinese and the people, and has always kept firmly in mind the mission of seeking rejuvenation for the Chinese nation; he firmly believes in Marxism and has firm revolutionary ideals and convictions. From the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines to Beijing, the capital of New China, he went from a political instructor who resisted the enemy with a gun in the fires of war to a well-known revolutionary, historian, and educator at home and abroad. He laid the foundation, pioneered, and innovated in the disciplines of Chinese revolutionary history and the history of the Communist Party of China, forged ahead, and bowed down to exhaustion... He was a communist fighter with unlimited loyalty to the party and a banner in the field of communist party history in new China.
Hu Hua's History of China's New Democratic Revolution was published in March 1950 and was printed in 13 consecutive editions in the 1950s, with millions of copies.
A researcher who works hard
In the half-century of teaching and researching the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of the Communist Party of China, Hu Hua has trained generations of party history, party building talents and revolutionary backbones; a large number of his works have a great influence and are well-known at home and abroad; he has a number of "new China firsts":
1. The History of China's New Democratic Revolution (by Hu Hua) (March 1950) (published by Xinhua Bookstore and People's Publishing House in China) is the first textbook and reading book to talk about the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of the Communist Party of China after the founding of New China.
2. "Outline of Chinese History" (co-authored by Zhai Bozan, Shao Xunzheng and Hu Hua) (February 1956) (published by the People's Publishing House) is the first textbook and reading book to tell the general history of China after the founding of New China.
3. Lecture Notes on the History of the Chinese Revolution (edited by Hu Hua) (1959) (published by Chinese Min University Press) is the first textbook and reading material in The History of the Chinese Revolution in National Colleges and Universities (launched in 1956).
4. Lecture Notes on the History of China's Socialist Revolution and Construction (edited by Hu Hua) (April 1985) (published by Chinese Min University Press) is the first national general textbook and reading book to talk about the history of China's socialist revolution and construction after the reform and opening up.
5. Comrade Zhou Enlai in His Youth (by Hu Hua) (December 1977) (published by China Youth Publishing House) is the first book in New China to write about the life of Zhou Enlai that was personally revised by Deng Yingchao.
6. Biography of Figures in the History of the Communist Party of China (hu hua editor-in-chief, vols. 1-50) (1979-1991) (published by Shaanxi People's Publishing House) is the first large-scale series of biographies of people in the history of the Communist Party of China in New China. As a result, Hu Hua won the Best Editor-in-Chief Award of the 1986 National Excellent Bestseller Selection Campaign sponsored by Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily and Xinhua Bookstore. In 1987, he won the first prize of Wu Yuzhang's Prize in History.
7. Hu Hua is also a member of the first disciplinary review group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the first doctoral supervisor of the CPC History major in colleges and universities across the country.
8. Hu Hua was the first CCP historian to introduce the Chinese revolution face-to-face to Western academic and ideological circles with the stance, principles, and ideological methods of the Communist Party of China.
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As a leader in the field of party history in the country, Hu Hua enjoyed high prestige. The growing number of titles also weighed heavier on him. At Chinese University, he successively served as the director and honorary director of the Department of Cpc History, the doctoral supervisor, etc.; with the advancement of the times, he also held more and more concurrent social positions, such as members of the disciplinary review group of the Degree Committee of the State Council, convener of the Political Science and Sociology Group, member of the CPC Central Committee Party History Collection Committee, executive vice president of the National CPC Party History Research Association (later renamed the Chinese Communist Party History Society), vice president of the National Society for the Study of Cpc Party History Figures (later renamed the Chinese Communist Party History Figures Research Society) and large-scale series of books He is the chief editor of the Biography of the People of the Communist Party of China (the above two societies were organized and prepared by him personally), the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society, the vice president of the Beijing Municipal Historical Society, the editorial board member of the History Of the Encyclopedia of China, the editorial board member of scientific socialism and the editor-in-chief of the "Socialism in China" volume, the director of the China Council for International Exchange, the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Higher Education Title Evaluation Committee, and so on. Heavy teaching, scientific research, editing, reviewing, organizing and leading work, various meetings, meetings, foreign visits, etc., make Hu Hua overloaded with work every day. Hu Hua, who has a strong sense of mission and responsibility, has worked hard and forgot to eat. His scientific research results are increasing day by day, but his health is declining day by day, so that the old disease recurs and transforms into liver cancer that is difficult to treat. On December 14, 1987, Hu Hua was killed by illness two days before his 66th birthday, and he still had many unfulfilled wishes.
The history of the history of the Communist Party of China has been passed on from generation to generation
Hu Hua's moral demeanor, spirit of governance, academic thinking and outstanding achievements have left an extremely valuable wealth for those who came after him. It should be said that not only now, but also in the future, it will still have important guiding significance for the field of party history. In the more than 30 years since Hu Hua's death, on the one hand, many of his research achievements have been republished and published, and the culmination of his life's painstaking efforts is the six-volume "Collected Works of Hu Hua" that was included in the National Publishing Fund project; the "Hu Hua Lecture Hall" with the purpose of "remembering the academic style and academic achievements of previous generations of scholars and reflecting the frontier dynamics of the history and theoretical research of the Communist Party of China" was opened in April 2014, becoming an important academic exchange platform for scholars at home and abroad engaged in party history research. On the other hand, the academic circles have never stopped studying Hu Hua himself, and relevant articles have been scattered in various newspapers and magazines, such as "Remembrance of historian Hu Hua" and "Revolutionary Historian Hu Hua", as well as speeches at commemorative forums in memory of Hu Hua many times. From the perspective of academic history, it is this book "Research on Hu Hua's Academic Thought" that comprehensively examines and comments on Hu Hua's academic life and academic contributions.
"Research on Hu Hua's Academic Thought", edited by Shi Hongliang
Shi Hongliang, a young scholar of the History of the Communist Party of China, studied for a doctorate in the Department of Party History at Chinese Min University and was a disciple of Hu Hua. After embarking on a teaching position in a university, he continued to pursue Hu Hua's life trajectory on the basis of his doctoral dissertation, deeply studied and studied Hu Hua's academic spirit and achievements, and had a more comprehensive grasp of Hu Hua's academic career and academic achievements. He systematically sorted out Hu Hua's ups and downs in his academic life and unique academic contributions, and combined with the changes of the times and the development process of the discipline of party history, he made an objective evaluation of Hu Hua's academic achievements from the perspective of historical materialism, and completed the writing of this book.
Professor Zhang Jingru, a well-known historian of the Communist Party of China and a professor of Beijing Normal University, attaches great importance to the development process of party history research itself and its research results, especially to party historians who have made outstanding contributions and party history works that have had far-reaching influence. At the beginning of reform and opening up, Hu Hua spoke highly of Hu Hua's "rectification of chaos", courage to break into forbidden areas, and expansion of research fields in the party history circles, and put forward that "it should be seriously recorded in the history of the development of cpc history." In 2018, he co-authored with Professor Ding Junping and published "Hu Hua's Thoughts on the Discipline Construction of the History of the Communist Party of China Around 1980". He hoped that researchers in the field of party history would make some efforts in this regard and promote the work of historians and historical book reviews. Shi Hongliang, the author of this book, became a descendant of the history of the CPC's party history.
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the summary meeting of the theme of "not forgetting the original heart and keeping the mission in mind": "Not forgetting the original heart and keeping the mission in mind must be regarded as an eternal topic for strengthening party building and a lifelong task for all party members and cadres. "Studying and comprehending the history of the Party and the history of New China is an important way to keep firmly in mind the party's original intention and mission. Hu Hua was an important founder and pioneer in the discipline of Chinese revolutionary history and the history of the CPC after the founding of New China; throughout his life, he had unswerving communist ideals and convictions, a principled stand of bearing in mind the overall situation and having the courage to take responsibility, a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts and strictly administering studies, a spirit of dedication of perseverance and hard work, and a style of public servant who abided by discipline and self-discipline and was honest and honest in performing official duties, and was an example for Communist Party members to "never forget their original intentions and keep firmly in mind their mission." "Research on Hu Hua's Academic Thought" fondly reviews and evaluates Hu Hua's revolutionary and academic deeds in the construction of the discipline of CPC history, and is a vivid teaching material for studying and studying the history of the CPC and the history of new China and inheriting and carrying forward the red tradition.
2021 coincides with the centenary of Hu Hua's birth, and the advent of the book "Research on Hu Hua's Academic Thought" is also a good commemoration of Hu Hua. (Editor-in-charge: Zeng Ziqian)