Mr. Sima Lu, a renowned expert on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, passed away on March 28 at the age of 103. The Chinese Scholars Association and Sima Lu’s family and friends held a memorial service to remember his life of pursuing freedom and his inspiration to future generations.
Mr. Sima Lu, a renowned expert on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, a witness to the history of the Communist Party, and a contemporary “living dictionary of Chinese political figures,” passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 103 on March 28 at the Flushing Home for the Aged. The memorial service was held in Flushing on April 7. Former friends of Mr. Sima Lu attended the service and participated remotely online. They recalled his journey from his defection to the Communist Party to his awakening and lifelong pursuit of freedom, and expressed their memories and high respect for him.
Sima Lu’s former friends Wang Dan and Yu Jinshan expressed their remembrance of Sima Lu.
Chinese Scholars Association President Wang Dan, veteran media personality Zeng Huiyan, former Chinese Scholars Association Executive Director Chen Baokong, Chinese Commune President Yu Jinshan, veteran media personality Wei Bizhou, U.S. Army Chaplain Xiong Yan, and Taiwan Society President Fang Xiurong were on hand to pay their respects to Si Ma Lu.
The friends of Sima Lu remembered his “torch-like” life and his pursuit of freedom, and paid high tribute to him.
He was born on the fifth day of the seventh month of the leap month of the yellow calendar in 1919, and lost his mother when he was born. In 1949, he moved from Shanghai to Hong Kong, and in 1983, he moved to New York from Hong Kong. He is the author of more than twenty books, which are of great value to the study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party.
Wang Dan, president of the Chinese Scholars Association, presided over Sima Lu’s memorial service.
The memorial service was hosted by Wang Dan, president of the Chinese Scholars Association, who said in his speech that Sima Lu’s great inspiration to future generations is that he recognized the nature of the Communist Party at a very young age and broke with it, “such wisdom is rare.
Wang Dan said, “Many left-wing youths defected to the CCP in that era, and it took many of them decades to recognize the tyrannical nature of the CCP, but back then Sima Lu intuitively sensed that atmosphere, which was different from the atmosphere of freedom he was seeking. Looking back on the history of the Chinese Communist Party, few people recognized as early as Mr. Sima Lu that what the Communist Party was doing was abnormal.” Wang Dan said that since Sima Lu left Yan’an until he entered a hospice in his later years, he did not give up his pursuit of freedom, “The June 4 generation of 89 is now 50 years old and should learn from Mr. Sima Lu and persevere.”
Zeng Huiyan, a veteran media personality and “forgetful friend” of Sima Lu, reviewed Sima Lu’s life, introducing his early pursuit of communism, his political battles and disillusionment with his ideals, and his eventual transformation into a liberal democrat.
Zeng Huiyan, a veteran media personality and friend of Sima Lu’s, reviewed Sima Lu’s life, saying that the most extraordinary experience of Sima Lu’s life is that he is the person who has met the largest number of contemporary Chinese political figures. He is a living history of contemporary China, “his extraordinary personal experience and experience, as well as long-term research accumulated knowledge and vision, and extensive contact with the upper echelons of the Communist Party and the Chinese parties and prominent figures …… so ‘have the conditions to write the official Chinese Communist Party can not say, do not dare to say the true story of history’. speak the true story of history’ and write a precious ‘wild history’ that is different from the official history of the CCP.”
Zeng Huiyan said that in 2004, at the age of 85, Sima Lu completed his memoir of nearly 400,000 words, “Witnesses to the History of the Chinese Communist Party – Memoirs of Sima Lu,” which recounts his life journey of pursuing communism in his early years, suffering through political blows and disillusionment of ideals, and finally becoming a liberal democrat, and witnessing the party of political figures of the two Communist parties The book is an attempt to “return the original face of the history of the Chinese Communist Party”. She said that Sima Lu was in very good health until the end of his life, his ears and eyes were clear, his health indicators were normal before he died, and his eyesight was better than that of a young man.
Yu Jinshan, president of the Chinese Commune, spoke highly of Sima Lu, calling him “a man of great wisdom, courage and benevolence”.
Yu Jinshan, president of the Chinese commune, called Sima Lu “a man of great wisdom, courage and benevolence. He said that Sima Lu’s gift to all Chinese people is to expose the unprecedented lies of communism that have been pervasive throughout history, “Communism is the karmic obstacle of mankind. There are not a few people who see through communism. Many people sigh that they have been deceived, but few people are as brave as Mr. Sima Lu, who stood up and spoke out against it without fear. There are also those who can stand up for themselves, but the only one who can study the roots of the history of the Chinese Communist Party and leave behind millions of books with the brush of spring and autumn, which will live forever in history and benefit the Chinese nation’s descendants, is Sima Lu.
Chen Baokong read aloud the poem he wrote to Sima Lu 13 years ago, “Like the first light of the Chinese lantern,” praising Sima Lu: “The faith you guarded, because of the sinking of the divine state, shows the priceless height.
The former Executive Director of the Chinese Scholars Association, Chen Baokong, recited his poem “Like the Beginning of a Chinese Lantern” written on the occasion of Sima Lu’s 90th birthday as a memorial – “It is not because of cowardice that you fled the blood-dripping field of fame and fortune; the warm show of the jackals failed, after all, to shape you into a lost lamb”, and “the faith you guarded, because of the sinking of the gods, shows its priceless height”.
Wei Bizhou, a veteran media person, said that the valuable treasure left by Sima Lu is that he used his own personal experience to tell people how the suffering and disaster in China started, to tell everyone the cruel facts and lies, and his book “Eighteen Years of Struggle” published in 1952 can see how he came to his senses; the book recounts the cruel struggles within the Communist Party that he personally experienced, and these testimonies made him see that the Communist Party was not saving the country and the people, but was constantly cleansing and struggling against people.
In particular, Wei Bizhou reads excerpts from this book, which is almost 70 years old, and which was a sensation back then, “passed down to millions of people”. The book says: “People are in total struggle with each other, and the experience of the Party tells him to struggle, to struggle constantly, not to trust your comrades, and to be more suspicious of your comrades than you are of people outside the Party”; the book ends: “Before the change of color on the mainland, many scholars were fighting all day long, I despised you, you despised me. I despised you, you despised me, and fought with each other for superiority. When the Communists cleaned them up one by one and ranked them as the oldest, the second, and the third ……, actually everyone had to submit …… we arbitrarily spoil freedom, not good at using freedom, we have inadvertently become the accomplices of the Communists …… Communists want to tie our hands and feet, they want to destroy our free life.”
Hu Ping, a famous pro-democracy activist theorist, spoke via video and pointed out that Sima Lu’s memoirs have high value for party history research, his close observation of the CCP leaders, which cannot be seen in general historical materials, his joining the CCP revolution as a teenager but leaving it soon after, and his heart journey has unique significance for future generations.
The elegiac couplets sent by good friends hung on both sides of the hearse, highly valuing the valuable legacy Si Ma Lu left for China’s politics, culture and history – “A hundred years of life to know all the treacherous lords, a thousand years of achievements to write the chapter of freedom” (Song Shuyuan and Zhang Xiying). “Born in the new wave of May Fourth, he ran to Yan’an with full of enthusiasm, saw through the essence of the Communist Party, disliked the culture of the saucepan, decided to go to Hong Kong, and was fortunate to live in peace; exiled in the free world, just past his prime, full of knowledge and writing history, recognized the truth of the Communist Party, embraced constitutional civilization, resolutely left the country, and enjoyed a long life with honor” (Wu Weimou).
The funeral committee of Sima Lu consisted of 106 people, including celebrities from all walks of life. After the memorial service, Sima Lu’s body was cremated at Greenbriar Cemetery in Brooklyn and buried in a cemetery in Flushing on a later date.
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