period.Lu Dingyi joined the
Chinese Communist Party in 1925, while he was studying
electrical engineering at the
Nanyang Public School. After graduation, he fully joined revolutionary activities, being mainly involved in the
Communist Youth League, writing articles for its newspaper
Chinese Youth (later renamed
Proletarian Youth and then
Leninist Youth). In 1927 he took part at both the
5th CCP National Congress and the CYL Congress, being elected a member of the CYL Central Committee working with its Propaganda Department. He was actively involved in countering
Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist coup, organizing communist unities in
Guangdong. In 1928 Lu Dingyi took part at the
6th CCP National Congress and the CYL Congress, both of which were held in
Moscow, remaining in the
Soviet Union until 1930 as a junior representative of the CYL to the
Comintern. Lu Dingyi then returned in China. He was a member of the
CCP Propaganda Department starting from 1934. He participated in the
Long March, during which he was editor of the
Red Star newspaper. Also during the Long March, he was the head of the Propaganda Department of the
Eighth Route Army. Later, he was the head of the Eighth Route Army's Political Department. Lu was made the head of the culture and education group. Shortly after the Cultural Revolution broke out, Lu was accused of being a promoter of the reactionary line in culture, since he did not adhere to Mao Zedong's idea that culture should extensively serve proletarian politics. In April 1966 he was accused of being part of the "Peng-Luo-Lu-Yang anti-Party clique" (the others being
Peng Dehuai,
Luo Ruiqing and
Yang Shangkun) In 1990, he contended that the turmoil in Eastern Europe demonstrated that had the protestors in Tiananmen Square not been suppressed, they would have implemented "another Cultural Revolution." Though Anna Louise Strong identifies the translator as Lu Dingyi in her 1948 memoir ''Tomorrow's China'', ==References==