Abstract
The renowned Chinese intellectual Hu Feng (1902-1985) is eitherreferenced as the heir of the May Fourth critical spirit, especially thatof Lu Xun (1881-1936), or associated with a famous case of politicalpersecution in the 1940s and 1950s, namely, the “Hu Feng Anti-Revolutionary Clique.” However, the young Hu Feng as a translatorduring his years in Japan is somewhat neglected. This article situatesHu Feng in the context of world proletarian literature. I look into HuFeng’s literary activities in Japan and examine his Chinese translation,Yanggui (1930), of a Soviet proletarian-utopian novel titled MessMend, or a Yankee in Petrograd (1923) via Japanese translation. Iargue that the years in Japan and his translation of the Soviet novelshape Hu Feng as a thinker of international proletarian subjectivity.
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