In the history of the CCP, there is such a special group of members: their fathers or relatives were high ranking officials of the Kuomintang, and they used this special background to work secretly for the CCP, collecting intelligence, turning against Kuomintang officials, etc.; or they abandoned their families and became pawns of the CCP’s united war effort, and could be considered to have made great achievements for the CCP. After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, they chose to continue to follow the CCP and chose to stay in the mainland. However, what they did not expect was that their decision would bring them to ruin.
Chen Brei, the daughter of Chiang Kai-shek’s “literary gallant”, committed suicide
Chen Brei, a famous literary figure in the Republic of China, was a man of great talent. He had long followed Chiang Kai-shek and participated in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang’s decision making, and drafted a large number of manuscripts for him. In 1948, when the Kuomintang army was defeated in the civil war between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang, Chen Brei chose to commit suicide by taking medicine and left eight suicide notes. Upon hearing the news, Chiang Kai-shek, together with his wife Soong Mei-ling, went to the Chinese funeral parlour to offer condolences and wrote a horizontal plaque of “The Perfect Man of Our Time”, and ordered Chiang Ching-kuo to attend the public funeral in Hangzhou.
It is astonishing that four of Chen Brei’s eight children were members of the Chinese Communist Party, especially his beloved daughter Chen Lian, who was the most legendary.
Chen Lian, born in 1919, was Chen Bre’s most beloved daughter. Since Mrs. Chen died during childbirth, she was pityingly called “Ren’er”. Chen Lian was raised by her grandmother until she was six years old, and as a result, she was somewhat willful and stubborn, returning to her father’s side when she was six years old, and then taking it upon herself to enter Hangzhou High School against his wishes.
After the outbreak of the Total War of Resistance against Japan, Chen Lian went to Chongqing with Chen Brei to attend high school. During that time, she read some books and magazines published by the Chinese Communist Party in Yan’an and became more radical in her thinking. She was introduced to the Chinese Communist Party by her high school homeroom teacher, who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party underground, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1939.
In 1941, the Kuomintang, in a counter-attack against the Communist Party’s practice of fighting against The Japanese, annihilated the New Fourth Army of Ye Ting’s division in southern Anhui and intensified the siege on the underground members of the Communist Party. Under the arrangement of the CCP, Chen Lian also secretly evacuated Kunming. Although Chen Lian was eager to go to Yan’an, the CCP had other plans. At Deng Yingchao’s urging, Chen Lian returned to Chen Bre’s side after a year in hiding, and used his father’s identity as a cover to carry out underground work and gather intelligence. In 1946, after the end of the war, Chen Lian insisted on teaching in Beiping (Beijing), and Chen Bre, who had made his home in Shanghai, agreed after some hesitation.
During his stay in Beijing, Chen Lian married Yuan Yongxi, another member of the Chinese Communist Party underground. The wedding was a grand affair, attended by many KMT dignitaries, military and political leaders, and celebrities, and witnessed by He Siyuan, the mayor of Beiping. However, Chen Brei did not attend because of his official duties.
Chen Lian’s special status facilitated the couple’s underground work in Beijing. However, within two months of their marriage, the Kuomintang authorities discovered the business card of “Yuan Yongxi” when they seized a secret Chinese radio station, leading to their arrest. Due to the lack of obvious evidence, the KMT authorities in Beiping transported the two to Nanjing on suspicion of being “communists” and handed them over to the Ministry of National Defense to be handled by the Bureau of Secrecy. Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek was alarmed by the incident, and after repeated investigations, Chiang confirmed that Chen Brei had nothing to do with the incident. At the same time, Chiang told Chen that he could be released on bail, but asked him to be “strictly disciplined” because he could not confirm their membership in the Communist Party.
At the end of January 1948, Chen Lian was released on bail and returned home to Cixi. A few months later, Yuan Yongxi was also released on bail, and Chen Brey let him stay at his home and invited his friends and family to entertain him, telling him to “take care of himself”. Six months later, Chen Lian and his wife, who had returned to Nanjing, followed the party’s instructions and stayed with Chen Bre, continuing to gather information.
After Chen Bure’s suicide, Chen and his wife went to the Communist-ruled area in northern Jiangsu and returned to Beiping after the establishment of the Chinese Communist regime. Chen Lian served as the State Minister for Children and Youth, the Director of Culture and Education of the East China Bureau, and the Executive Committee of the All-China Women’s Federation. Yuan Yongxi became secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University in 1953.
In 1957, Yuan Yongxi was branded as a rightist because of his arrest and his status as Chen Bre’s son-in-law, and was expelled from the Party and sent to a remote farm for reform through labor. Chen Lian became a “rightist family member,” and his three children naturally became rightist children. Chen Lian had no choice but to divorce her husband and take her children to Shanghai alone, hoping to escape the storm.
In April 1967, the East China Bureau made Chen Lian a key target of censorship and sent a group of people to investigate her history, and in September, another group of people went on a trip to collect evidence about her. Chen Lian was still in the dark, unaware of this. One by one, traitors in society were being uncovered, and she was still taking her problems in stride. Her sister asked her worriedly, “Will they look into the issue of your arrest this time?” She said, “My arrest was concluded a long time ago, and no formalities were done when I was released from prison. Little Yuan may be in trouble this time. I’m not in trouble!”
Chen Lian was right. In her file, there is an official conclusion from the Organization Department of the Central Youth Committee dated June 24, 1949, which clearly states, “Chen Lian was bailed out by her family after her arrest, did not expose her organization in prison, did not complete any formalities when she was released from prison, actively searched for an organization after her release, and actively worked after coming to Beiping – agreed to reinstate her Party membership.”
But the rebels still found hard evidence that Chen Lian was a “traitor”: a photo of Chiang Kai-shek and his family when they were condoling with Chen Bure. On the morning of November 19, 1967, Chen Lian, dressed in neat clothes, leapt from the 11th floor of the East China Bureau dormitory on Taixing Road in Shanghai, leaving a letter of death, saying, “I would rather break the jade than make a tile” at the age of 48.
After Chen Lian’s suicide, the criticism against her did not stop. The East China Bureau held a denunciation meeting, listing all her crimes, saying that she had defected in history, resisted the movement during the Cultural Revolution, and committed suicide, another act of treason, and announced in public her expulsion from the Party.
Chen Lian’s second brother, Chen Guo, who had returned from the United States to join the CCP, was falsely accused of being a secret agent during the Cultural Revolution and was crippled by a suicide attempt in Hangzhou; Chen Lian’s youngest brother, Chen Gravel, who joined the CCP in 1952, was also criticized during the Cultural Revolution.
Years later, Chen Lian’s son said, “My father’s three brothers joined the revolution and were all born into death, but one was killed by mistake, two became ‘rightists’, and my mother died in the Cultural Revolution. It’s a fact that no one was spared! So, what was the point?” Yes, what was it for?
Zhou Fuhai’s son was imprisoned for 18 years
As a delegate to the Communist Party of China (CPC), Zhou Fohai left the Communist Party in 1924 and joined the government of the Republic of China led by Chiang Kai-shek, where he served as the head of the Central Propaganda Department and wrote many anti-communist articles. In 1938, he joined Wang Jingwei’s Japanese government and was sentenced to death by the Nanjing High Court of the Kuomintang after the victory of the war, later commuted to life imprisonment, and died suddenly of a heart attack in 1948.
According to mainland media reports, Zhou Fuhai’s son, formerly known as Zhou Youhai, was deeply humiliated when his classmates called him a “little traitor” and carved these three words on his desk with a knife. Later, he began to feel good about the Chinese Communist Party after reading “A Journey to the West”, a book written by the American journalist Snow, which glorified the Chinese Communist Party.
In August 1946, Zhou Youhai officially joined the CCP as a “Special Party Member” and changed his name to Friend Zhou. Afterwards, he was sent back to Shanghai by Yang Fan, one of the chief agents of the CCP, to work in the purge committee of the Shanghai Bureau of the CCP Central Committee under the leadership of Tian Yunqiao, and became a member of Yang Fan’s cadre. However, his public identity was that of a businessman doing speculative business in the second floor of the Central Shopping Mall.
Because of his special status, he was able to meet a large number of upper echelons of the Kuomintang, and Zhou Friends made many covert counter-attacks and reported important information to Tian Yunqiao from time to time, and he was involved in the counter-attack against important leaders of the Shanghai Police Department and the chief of the Zhendong Tax Police.
After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhou was arrested in 1955 in connection with the unjust case of Pan (Hannian) Yang (Fan) and was imprisoned in Beijing Qincheng Prison for 10 years. After his release, he was sentenced to 3 years of control for the crime of counter-revolution, and in 1967, he was again imprisoned in Qincheng Prison for 8 years, after being implicated in the Liu Shaoqi case. The best 18 years of his life were spent in the prison of the Chinese Communist Party.
Perhaps the fate of Chen Lian and Zhou’s friends, who were deceived by the Chinese Communist Party, can enlighten more Chinese people.
The miserable end of Fu Zuoyi’s eldest daughter
The direct reason why the Chinese Communist army was able to capture Beiping (later renamed “Beijing”) without bloodshed was that Fu Zuoyi, then the top commander of the Nationalist government in North China, accepted the Communist terms and surrendered at the head of 250,000 defenders, and it was his eldest daughter, Fu Dongyu, who was an underground member of the Communist Party, who forced Fu to make such a choice.
In 1946, the Communist Party negotiations broke down, the survival of the Chinese Communist Party was in crisis, and there was an urgent need to understand Chiang Kai-shek’s comprehensive deployment, so the Chinese Communist Party ordered Fu Dongju to return to Beiping to steal all the most important secrets kept in the safe of Fu Zuoyi’s bedroom. Through her 5-year-old half-brother, Fu Dongju successfully got the key to the safe, opened it, and photographed the most important military materials. Then, the little brother was told to put the key back into his father’s jacket pocket and promised to keep the secret forever.
The Chinese Communist Party soon obtained the film, calling it “the most important military intelligence at the beginning of the Liberation War. Fu Dongju betrayed her father and the national government.
As the war progressed, with the cooperation of Chinese communist spies lurking around Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang army in the northeast suffered defeats and was in crisis in northern China.
At that time, Fu Zuoyi had no illusions about the Communists, and he openly said that the Communists would bring cruelty, terror and tyranny. Later, when the Chinese Communist army was approaching Beiping, the sense of responsibility and the reality of whether to hand over North China and 600,000 troops to the Chinese Communist Party made Fu Zuoyi feel very conflicted, so much so that he “often slapped himself, hit his head against the wall, and bit the head of a match to commit suicide.
As Fu Dongju repeatedly Fu Zuoyi a large number of military intelligence secretly to the Chinese Communist Party, so that many of Fu Zuoyi’s military operations repeatedly failed. She dissuaded her father Fu Zuoyi not to lead the south, do not work for Chiang Kai-shek at the same time, but also the father’s military deployment, strategic intentions and other information reported to the Chinese Communist Party in a timely manner, so that the Chinese Communist Party according to the information obtained to grasp the opportunity to order the Northeast Field Army to enter the customs in advance, Fu Zuoyi and his troops trapped in North China.
Based on the information provided by Fu Dongju, the CPC made the decision to settle Beiping peacefully. In order to save the millions of people in Beiping from being charred and to preserve a large number of rare cultural relics in the ancient capital of Beiping, Fu Zuoyi accepted the secret peace talks proposed by the CPC, Fu Zuoyi and Mao and the CPC Central Committee were contacted through Fu Dongyu, at that time Fu Zuoyi did not think his daughter had already betrayed him.
After the end of the secret peace talks, Mao Zedong, in a victorious posture, drafted an “official letter (ultimatum) from the head of the Pingjin Front Command to Fu Zuoyi. This official letter was extremely strong and harshly worded. The letter says: “…… your army is slaughtering people, raping women, burning villages, plundering property, and doing everything …… under the rule of your general and your party, abolishing all freedom rights of the people and oppressing all democratic parties and people’s groups …… arresting innocent people in Beiping …… your General himself is a war criminal …… should follow the instructions of our army at this last moment, in order to redeem themselves …….” When Fu Dongju received this letter forwarded by Deng Baoshan and the Chinese Communist Party representative Su Jing, she was afraid that her father, who was “killable but not humiliating,” would temporarily change his mind. So, the official letter was deliberately placed under the pile of documents in Fu Zuoyi’s office in Zhongnanhai Juren Tang, so that Fu Zuoyi could not see it.
Until February 1949, the Chinese Communist army into the city and publicly released this ultimatum, Fu Dongju had to take the original letter from under the pile of documents to his father. Fu Zuoyi read it and immediately scolded his daughter for being disloyal, unrighteous and a slave of two surnames.
As the Chinese Communist Party took Beiping meritorious Fu Dongju did not expect to be in a miserable situation in the years to come.
After 1949, Fu worked as a reporter for the People’s Daily for a long time. During the Cultural Revolution, she was still outed as an “anti-Party” “class dissident” and was brutally criticized. When she went to visit her father, the self-preservation of Fu Zuoyi said to her: “From now on, you do not come back.”
After writing two letters to Mao, Fu Dongju, who was in inner disbelief and pain, was finally freed.
In her later years, Fu Dongju was in dire straits. Her meager pension almost prevented her from seeing a doctor and staying in a hospital. Some years ago, the housing reform, the need for individuals to buy down the public housing, and this symbolic not much money, she could not get, so that the State Council Administration of Institutional Affairs has repeatedly pressed her to force housing money. In fact, Fu Zuoyi handed over a number of private properties, returned one to his daughter to live, completely reasonable, but no one cares about this matter.
In 2007, Fu Dongju passed away. His father, Fu Zuoyi, died in April 1974 after a long illness. Perhaps, before she passed away, she understood why her father called her “disloyal, unrighteous and a slave of two surnames”.
Juzheng’s daughter and son-in-law both died
Juzheng was one of the founding fathers of the Kuomintang and served as the president of the Judicial Yuan of the Kuomintang. In the summer of 1935, Jui Yingdi was admitted to Nanjing Jinling Women’s College of Arts and Sciences. During this time, she met a classmate named Zhou Manru (later renamed Zhou Nan), who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s peripheral organization and was deeply influenced by her.
In the summer of 1936, Juyingdi met Qi Shiqian, then a leader of the academic movement at Jinling University and already under the influence of the CCP, at a joint summer camp held by some church universities in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang Province. Later, Jui Yingdi recalled, “This chance acquaintance was unexpectedly the source of a fundamental change in my future intellectual life.”
In the end, Qi did not know that Jui Yingdi was Juzheng’s daughter, but thought the schoolgirl was plainly dressed and had a lot of personality. Later, after Qissiqian learned of her identity, he used her as an object to “develop the surrounding groups”, and slowly a love affair developed between them.
After the outbreak of the war in 1937, Qi, who had secretly joined the CCP, returned to Yangzhou and formed the Yangzhou branch of the CCP, which was affiliated with the Nanjing Municipal Committee. In February 1939, Juyingdi joined the CCP. In the same month, they got married.
From September 1938 to July 1943, Jui Yingdi (alias Zhu Shen) and Qi Shiqian (alias Zhao Zheng) worked in the Communist Party’s anti-Japanese base areas in the East of Ord, Anhui, East of Anhui, and Huainan. Due to the special family background of the QI Shiqian couple, they became well-known figures in the base area (especially in Huainan base area) and were received by Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi many times. Chen Yi once said, “Communism is the truth, and not only did I, a drinker of foreign ink, join its discipline, but even Juzheng’s daughter believed in the Communist Party.”
In April 1943, the Japanese army attacked the Huainan base area, and the district party committee deployed women and children to evacuate. In August, due to the negative impact of the “rescue of the lost” campaign, Qi, a senior cadre of the Huainan District Party Committee, was forced to leave. This led to suspicion of a large number of cadres in the southeastern Huainan area, and some even asserted that the Nanjing League was a secret service organization under the red flag. Qi went to Shanghai to reunite with his wife, and during that time (August 1943 to August 1945) he was unable to contact the CCP organization and in fact “left the party.
In January 1944, QI Shiqian and his wife went to Chongqing, Juzheng saw QI Shiqian for the first time, although Juzheng had heard about his daughter’s son-in-law’s Communist identity, but because of his love for his daughter, Juzheng, who had always held an anti-Communist and anti-communist attitude, could only turn a blind eye, and managed to arrange for his son-in-law to work as an inspector in the Bureau of Flower Gauze Control under the Ministry of Finance. He was arrested and imprisoned, and Juzheng rescued him.
After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Qi was appointed Commissioner of the Shanghai Liaison Bureau and Director of the Secretariat, and Juyingdi was elected as the People’s Representative of Shanghai’s Jing’an District. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Qi was branded as a member of the “Little Three Villages” and a “traitor”, and died on August 4, 1966 after taking “dichlorvos”. The rebel faction immediately held a criticism conference and declared him a “suicide by fear of crime” and expelled him from the Party.
After nearly three years of seeking justice for her husband, Ju Yingdi was also branded as the leader of a “counter-revolutionary reversal group” and passed away in 1969. Their son, Songnian, was also imprisoned.
Fu Dongju and Juyingdi could understand to their dying day that their fate was already sealed the moment they betrayed their father.
Zhang Xueliang’s brother realized that he was haunted by the devil at the end of his life
Zhang Xueliang, who staged the Xi’an military coup at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party, is considered by many to be a “sinner of the ages”. It was his childish act that caused Chiang Kai-shek to lose the war against the Communists, and allowed the Chinese Communist Party to develop and grow during the war of resistance and eventually steal power, and Zhang Xueliang, who was abandoned by the Chinese Communist Party after the coup, also saw the face of the Chinese Communist Party and regretted what he had done, and called himself “the chief of sinners” in his later years. Zhang Xueliang’s brother Zhang Xueshi, who was also deceived by the Chinese Communist Party, came to his senses just before his death.
Zhang Xueshi was Zhang Xueliang’s fourth brother. In 1933, he secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party and was dispatched by the Chinese Communist Party to work in the special service brigade of the 67th Army in Langfang as a soldier. In September of the same year, he was introduced by Zhang Xueliang to the 10th Preparatory Course of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, and after graduation in early 1937, he served as a trainee platoon leader and captain staff officer in the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, and in October 1938, he went to Yan’an, where he participated in the limited guerrilla war behind the Japanese lines.
After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhang Xueshi served as president of Northeastern University, vice president of Andong Naval School, vice president and vice political commissar of Dalian Naval School, and vice chief of naval staff, etc. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. Zhang Xueshi was also received by Mao and Zhou Enlai several times, and his career was smooth.
However, after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Xueshi was criticized for implementing the “bourgeois military line” of the recently defeated Luo Ruiqing, and was asked to give an account of the so-called unclear property issues, and was removed from his post as secretary of the Party Committee of the Naval Command. In July 1967, Zhang Xueshi was put into a small room of about ten square meters in a camp of a regiment in the northern suburbs. The house was very dark, the concrete floor was very wet, and the room was not ventilated and very stuffy.
During his detention, Zhang Xueshi wrote to Zhou Enlai, in addition to writing to the Navy Party Committee to question the reason, “I have betrayed the class from which I came, and have followed the path guided by Chairman Mao in the Party for thirty years, and although I have had such and such shortcomings and mistakes in my work, I assure the Party with my Party character and life that I am never a traitor, a spy, or a counter-revolutionary …… I have written three letters to the naval party committee, so far no reply and no one has spoken to me, so I have written this letter to you.” But he still did not get any reply.
In 1968, Zhang Xueshi was admitted to the hospital. The final diagnosis was (a) generalized blood-borne disseminated tuberculosis; (b) pulmonary heart disease; and (c) severe malnutrition. Despite being so sick, he was sent back to a small, airtight room with no fresh air circulation. Zhang Xueshi requested that the kraft paper on the window be torn off, but was refused; he wished to eat boiled potatoes, but was also refused.
In 1970, Zhang Xueshi’s condition deteriorated, and although Zhou Enlai ordered all-out efforts to rescue him, his condition worsened due to his long-term torture, and he left this life with hatred on June 29 of that year. Before he died, Zhang Xueshi, who had been in a coma for a long time, was unable to speak. However, when he saw Zheng Xinchao, his best friend for many years in Yan’an, his eyes lit up and he seemed to be much more awake. He pushed the alarm clock on his bed to the floor, and when the female guardian brought a pen and paper, he lay on his back on the hospital bed and angrily wrote down four big words: “The devil is haunting me”. He waved his hand and rewrote the four words a second time. It was probably only at this moment that he realized that everything that had happened to him was the result of falling for the devil of the Chinese Communist Party.
Yu Youren’s son-in-law’s bad luck during the Cultural Revolution
Yu Youren, the patriarch of the Kuomintang, was the president of the audit and the supervisor of the national government. His daughter Yu Zhixiu married Qu Wu, who was deeply admired by him and who joined the Chinese Communist Party as early as 1923.
After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, Yu Youren went to Taiwan, while his wife Gao Zhonglin and daughter Yu Zhixiu stayed in Xi’an, and his son-in-law Qu Wu served as Deputy Secretary General of the State Council and Deputy Director of the Foreign Cultural Liaison Committee, and visited more than ten countries, and joined the Democratic Revolution in 1952. His career path was quite smooth.
Unexpectedly, after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Qu Wu became the target of criticism, the main charges are three: first, “foreign relations”, in the Soviet Union for 12 years, always pro-Soviet, naturally “Soviet agents”; second, “counter-revolutionary two-faced”, although in the revolutionary camp, the actual deep affection for the Kuomintang, for Yu Youren’s wife to celebrate his birthday is to echo Chiang Kai-shek “counter-attack on the mainland”; third, “harboring traitors”, in Xinjiang to help Zhang Zhizhong rescue 131 Chinese Communist Party personnel are “traitors”, they will be sent back to Yan’an is Chiang Kai-shek’s “conspiracy”.
In August 1968, Qu Wu was sent to Qincheng prison for “counter-revolutionary crimes. During his imprisonment, Qu Wu’s wife Yu Zhixiu and mother-in-law Gao Zhonglin suffered shocks and passed away.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Qu Wu was rehabilitated by the Chinese Communist Party and died in 1992.
Hu Shi’s son committed suicide by hanging
Hu Shih, a famous master of Chinese studies in the Republic of China, taught at Peking University, served as the ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States during the war from 1938 to 1942, and after 1957 took up the post of director of the Academia Sinica, the highest research institution of the Republic of China in Taiwan. His academic and political influence cannot be underestimated. In the 1950s, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party made Hu Shi a key target of criticism in order to eradicate liberal and democratic ideas among intellectuals, and many people associated with him were imprisoned, branded as “rightists”, and even killed. Among them was Hu Shi’s second son, Hu Sidu.
Hu Shih had three children: his eldest son, Hu Zuwang, and his eldest daughter, Hu Sufei and Hu Sidu. In 1948, when he returned to Beiping with his father’s friends, many people invited him to teach at the university for the sake of Hu Shih, but Hu Shih said, “Si Du is not capable of academic study and is not a talent for research. “(Deng Guangming) refused all the invitations and agreed to work in the library of Peking University.
In December 1948, Chiang Kai-shek sent a plane to Beiping to pick up Hu Shi and other cultural celebrities. The messenger told Hu Shih that this was the last chance to go south. Hu Sidhu, who had little knowledge of the Chinese Communist Party, but thought he had done nothing harmful to it and would not be treated in any way by it, decided to stay. Although Hu’s wife, Jiang Dongxiu, was sad, she could do nothing but leave her son with some soft goods and gold and silver jewelry and left.
In September 1949, Hu Sidu entered the Institute of Political Studies at the North China People’s Revolutionary University and was assigned to Class II, Group VII. On September 11 of the following year, Hu Sidu wrote to his mother in the United States, telling her that he would go to Tangshan Jiaotong University to teach after graduation, and that he hoped his father, Hu Shi, would see fewer guests and pay more attention to his health.
In 1951, the Chinese Communist Party launched an ideological reform campaign against intellectuals in order to tighten its intellectual control over them. During the campaign, Hu Sidhu criticized his own father against his will and wrote and performed on stage in an anti-American play himself. In addition, he published an article in Hong Kong’s Ta Kung Pao, “A Critique of My Father, Hu Shih,” in which he stated that he wanted to break off contact with him. Hu’s “rebellion” caused great shock and negative influence at home and abroad, but Hu Shih was reluctant to talk much about it.
At the end of the “study and reformation” period, Hu Sidu also handed over his mother’s belongings to the Chinese Communist Party, “to express his loyalty to the Party organization”, and expressed his intention to join the Chinese Communist Party. It can be said that during his work in Tangshan, Hu Sidu worked hard and earnestly, hoping to “atone” for his father’s sins.
In his diary on October 7, 1950, Hu Shih recounted a message from a friend: Sidhu had a girlfriend who was now in Guizhou and might return next spring, hoping that he would get married next year. However, probably due to pressure, the girlfriend eventually broke up with him, and no one was willing to fall in love with Sidhu after that.
In 1957, in order to completely eliminate the voices of discontent among intellectuals, Mao adopted the strategy of “luring snakes out of holes”, allowing intellectuals to freely express their opinions and give advice to the CCP. Some intellectuals fell for it, including Hu Sidu, who wanted to join the Party. He took the initiative to give a lot of advice to the leaders of his institute and ministry. As the Chinese Communist Party began to crack down on the rightists, Hu Sidu was branded a “rightist” and accused of attacking the Party, and his father, Hu Shi, was criticized as well.
He hanged himself on September 21 of that year. When his relative, Hu Simeng, arrived in Tangshan after receiving a telegram from the school, he “saw a courtyard full of large-character posters criticizing him (referring to Sidhu) and also Hu Shih. The school told him that Hu Sidu had “committed suicide by hanging” and showed him Sidu’s “suicide note”. At this time, Hu Sidu had already been put into a coffin, so Hu Simeng and others dug a pit in the suburbs and buried him, putting up a small wooden sign, “and now I’m afraid I don’t know where it is.
After taking care of his affairs, Hu Simeng loaded a truckload of Hu Si Du’s books and clothes and shipped them back to Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution, fearing that the Red Guards would raid his home, Hu Simeng burned most of Hu’s books. During the Cultural Revolution, Hu Simeng tore up the copy of the “last letter” and saved only a corner of the paper.
In 1962, Hu Shih died in Taipei without knowing the death of his second son.
In addition, Hu’s own nephew, Hu Jiguang, a language teacher, was first classified as a “rightist” and then killed by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
Conclusion
The children and relatives of high-ranking Kuomintang officials who were persecuted by the CCP are only the tip of the iceberg of the CCP’s history of brutalizing Chinese people. It can be said that after the founding of the CCP, and especially after the establishment of the government, nothing has escaped its clutches. From inside the CCP to outside the CCP, from senior CCP officials to ordinary people, from those who have made great achievements for the CCP to the CCP’s united war objects …… the CCP is like a meat grinder, putting all people under the same machine, ravaging, abusing and brutalizing them. The existence of such a CCP is a disgrace to the Chinese and to the world.
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