Qu Qiubai - Legacy

Legacy

Qu was heavily criticised as a "renegade" during the Cultural Revolution. However, the Central Committee absolved him in 1980 and today he is held in very high regard by the Party. A Qu Qiubai museum operates in his native town of Changzhou. Tsi-an Hsia (Chinese: 夏濟安, Chinese: 夏济安) writes in The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (published 1968) describing Qu as "the tenderhearted Communist". Qu and a Russian counterpart, V.S. Kolokolov, were responsible for the early development of the Sin Wenz system of Mandarin romanization. Qu also created the official Chinese translation of The Internationale, used as the anthem of the Communist Party of China. Qu was one of Chinese excellent intellectuals who were baptized by the May 4th Movement, and one of early Communist Party members that established the spirits. Generally speaking, Qu was an early leader of Chinese Communist Party as well as an emotional poet.