He is a famous writer and social activist, a pioneer and pioneer of China's film industry, dedicated his life's energy to China's cultural undertakings and film undertakings, and was awarded the title of "Film Artist with Outstanding Contributions to the State" by the State Council.
In 1919, he participated in the May Fourth Movement, founded the progressive journal Zhejiang Xinchao, began to work in the translation of the workers' movement and revolutionary culture in 1927, and joined the Communist Party of China in June of the same year. In 1929, he participated in the preparation of the Left-Wing Writers' Union and the Chinese Left-Wing Dramatists' Alliance, and in March 1933 he served as the leader of the film group led by the Party, and after 1937, he edited progressive newspapers such as Salvation Daily, Xinhua Daily, and Huashang Bao in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, hong Kong and other places, participated in various major tasks on the broader cultural front, united the strength of literati from all walks of life, and played the party's leading role in cultural work.
For the needs of the party's cultural work, he constantly expanded his creative field and successfully realized cross-media writing. He has occasionally dabbled in or intensively written a variety of genres and themes, including investigation reports, translations, current affairs reviews, film scripts (original or adapted), drama scripts (original or adapted), reportage, short and medium stories, poems, radio short plays, news interviews, feature editorials, newspaper supplements, essays, lecture notes, oral histories, memoirs, etc., and has also published or published far-reaching works in the fields of film, drama and literature theory and criticism, freely moving between creation and theory and criticism. Between originality, translation and adaptation, its carrier spans different media forms such as text expression, stage performance, radio transmission, screen screening, etc., and has made outstanding contributions to Chinese culture and art in the twentieth century, and has left a valuable cultural and artistic heritage for future generations.
In 1994, at the age of 95, he said that for the sake of ideals, for the sake of the country and the nation, and for the sake of the people, we must contribute the last strength.
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Source: "Cultural Power" Guangming Daily Collaborative Promotion Platform