Author · China
He Qifang
Died in 1977
He Yongfang, known as He Qifang, was born on 5 February 1912 in Wanxian, in Sichuan. He studied philosophy at Peking University, which he left in 1935 to teach. In 1938 he made his way to Yan'an, where he joined the Communist Party. After 1949 he directed the literature institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and journals of criticism. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he died of stomach cancer on 24 July 1977.