Zhou Erfu

Zhou Erfu was born in Nanjing in 1914. According to the South China Morning Post, he graduated from Guanghua University in Shanghai, joined the leftist literary movement in the 1930s and published a first collection of poems in 1936, before reaching Yan'an in 1938 and joining the party the following year. He became vice-minister of Culture in 1978. In 1986, he was removed from the vice-presidency of the association for friendship with foreign countries and expelled from the party, for a “corrupt lifestyle” according to the Xinhua agency cited by the same newspaper. He died in Beijing in 2004.

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• NovelMorning in Shanghai上海的早晨Zhou Erfu · 1958Literature