Chu Anping

Chu Anping
Born 5 November 1909(1909-11-05)
Disappeared September 1966
Status Unknown
Alma mater Guanghua University
London School of Economics
Spouse Lucy Duanmu

Chu Anping (Chinese: 储安平; pinyin: Chǔ Anpíng; Wade–Giles: Ch'u Anp'ing, 1909–1966?) was a Chinese scholar, intellectual, noted liberal journalist and editor of Guancha (观察, The Observer) in the Civil War era of the late 1940s.

Editor of the Communist Party newspaper "for intellectuals" Guangming Ribao [光明日报] in the post-1949 era, Chu was purged during the Anti-Rightist campaign, following publication of an article entitled "The Party Dominates the World." It is believed that he committed suicide in 1966. He was father to Chu Wanghua, a contemporary Chinese composer.

Career Outline

April 1, 1957 Chu was appointed Guangming Daily editor-in-chief.

On June 1, 1957, at the symposium convened by the Department for United Front Work of the CCP Central Committee, Chu made a speech entitled "Comment made to Chairman Mao And Premier Zhou," which stated that Mao Zedong had seen the "world [as the] party's". Both the government and the people felt the tremendous reverberations. People's Daily and Guangming Daily both published the full text the next day with banner headlines and in a prominent position.

In January 1958, in the Anti-Rightist Movement Chu was labelled a "anti-party anti-people anti-socialism bourgeois rightist".

In 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution, Chu was brutally persecuted, then soon went missing. His whereabouts are unknown and it is believed that he committed suicide.

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