Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers

From left: Hu Yepin, Rou Shi, Feng Keng, Yin Fu, Li Weisen (Li Qiushi)

The Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers were five Chinese writers associated with the League of Left-Wing Writers Li Weisen, Hu Yepin, Rou Shi, Yin Fu, and Feng Keng executed on 7 February 1931 by the Kuomintang in the White Terror in Shanghai.

Eighteen other communists were executed on the same day, including a pregnant woman.[1]

Some writers have suggested that the five may have been betrayed by others in the Communist Party, perhaps as a result of a power struggle.[2]

Footnotes

  1. Wong 1991, p. 100
  2. Wong 1991, p. 100, 131

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