Background
Mr. Hu was born in Huangpi, Hubei, China, in 1910.
Mr. Hu was born in Huangpi, Hubei, China, in 1910.
He graduated from the Junior Commercial School, Hubei, in 1920. In 1921 Mr. Hu entered Chien-Chuan Middle School. Hu Chiu-yuan was deeply interested in the study of literature and science. In 1925, he entered the Wuhan University, first studying Chemistry and Mathematics, later transferred to the Department of Chinese Literature. Mr. Hu went to Japan, where he entered the Politico-Economic Department of Waseda University. While there, he studied literature and art, and also paid special attention to the ideology of Marxist interpretation
While in school, Hu Chiu-yuan promoted the Youth Movement and wrote articles on socialism. After the Kuomintang rule came to Hubei, he was made editor of the Wuhan Review, an organ of the Hubei Branch of the Kuomintang. Mr. Hsu worked as an instructor at the Hubei Political College and at the same time chief editor of The Chinese Students, organ of the 'Chinese Students' Union in Central China.
He left Hubei for Shanghai in 1928 and joined the Eastern Book Company as an editor in 1929. Mr. Hu returned to China in 1931 and devoted himself to writing and translation in Shanghai. During his stay in Shanghai, he served as a professor at the National Chi Nan University, chief editor of the Cultural Critics, La Kultures, and the Research Monthly. Hu Chiu-yuan left Shanghai for Fuzhou in the latter part of 1933 and joined the Fujian Independence Movement, being elected a member of the Cultural Committee of the Fujian People's Revolutionary Government. When the Movement collapsed, he went to Hong Kong and after remaining there for a while, he went abroad.
Sociology of Art
(translation of Friche's work)
Some Problems of Art and Science
(translation of Friche's work)
History of the World According to Historical Materialism
(translation)
Under the Lamp
(Essays)
Imperialism and the Chinese Revolution
Asiatic Productive Mode and Absolutism
Art in the Light of Historical Materialism
In thoughts, he was first influenced by Liberalism and Nietscheism and then became a Marxist.
