Xu Guangping (, 1898 – 1968), her former name "Xu Chongqian" (), was a Chinese female writer, politician, and social activist. She was well known as the partner of Chinese writer

Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. W ...

Biography

Born in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

in a family of

Great Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

official. In 1918 She entered Tianjin Zhili No.1 Normal School for Women. She was participated in the activities of the Tianjin Women's Patriotic Association and the Enlightenment Society during the

May 4th Movement The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese Anti-imperialism, anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of Tiananmen (The Gate of Heavenly Peace) to p ...

. After graduating in 1922, she was admitted to the Chinese Language Department of Peking Female High Normal College and became a student of Lu Xun,

Xu Shoushang Xu Shoushang (; 1883–1948) was a Chinese writer. He was one of the co-authors of the Twelve Symbols national emblem The Twelve Symbols national emblem () was the state emblem of the Empire of China (1915–1916), Empire of China and the ...

, and

Yi Peiji Yi Peiji (; 28 February 1880 – September 1937) was a Chinese politician, scholar, and educator. Life and career Yi was born in Changsha, Hunan, on February 28, 1880. He graduated from Hubei Fangyan College (now Wuhan University), then he went t ...

. She was graduated in 1926. Xu publicly expressed her feelings for her teacher, Lu Xun, in the newspaper one year before graduation, and the couple lived together in Guangzhou in 1927, and then moved to Shanghai. In 1929, Lu Xun only son was born in Shanghai. Xu Guangping and Lu Xun lived together until his death in 1936. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xu Guangping successively served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Central People's Government Administration, the vice-chairwoman of the

All-China Women's Federation The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF; ) is a women's rights people's organization established in China on 24 March 1949. It was originally called the All-China Democratic Women's Foundation, and was renamed the All-China Women's Federation in ...

, and the vice-chairwoman of the

China Federation of Literary and Art Circles China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (''CFLAC'' ), established in July 1949, is a Chinese people's organization composed of nationwide associations of writers and artists. CFLAC is one of the founders of CPPCC ( Chinese People's Political Co ...

. She was the third secretary-general of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. She was a member of the first to third Standing Committee of the

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

and

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2, ...

. She joined the Communist Party of China in 1960. She donated all the works and cultural relics left by Lu Xun to the country. She died in Beijing on March 3, 1968, due to illness. Xu Guangping wrote under the pen names Jing Song () and Xu Xia ().

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* ''Letters from Two Places''魯迅許廣平的《兩地書》刪改知多少
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Tragedy of Lu Xun

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