Lu Dingyi

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Lu Dingyi
Minister of Culture
In office
February 1965 – May 1966
PremierZhou Enlai
Preceded byShen Yanbing
Succeeded byXiao Wangdong
Head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
December 1944 – 1952
LeaderZhang Wentian
Mao Zedong
Preceded byZhang Wentian
Succeeded byXi Zhongxun
In office
July 1954 – December 1966
LeaderMao Zedong (Chairman)
Preceded byXi Zhongxun
Succeeded byTao Zhu
Personal details
Born(1906-06-09)9 June 1906
Hanyu Pinyin
Lù Dìngyī
Wade–GilesLu4 Ting4-i1

Lu Dingyi (

People's Republic of China and before the Cultural Revolution
, he was credited as one of the top officials in socialist culture.

Biography

Comintern
.

Lu Dingyi then returned in China and participated in the

Liberation Daily[2]: 151  after his predecessor Yang Song
fell ill.

During the Yan'an Rectification Movement, Lu Dingyi wrote Our basic view for journalism, which was considered the basis for Chinese communist journalism. In 1943 he was appointed head of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, a post he held until 1952 and then again from 1954. He was elected CCP Central Committee member in 1945.

A political commissar in the PLA, Lu Dingyi gave important contributions to the revolutionary struggle in Shaanxi along with other top leaders like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi, according to his official biography.

After the establishment of the

Central People's Government from 1949 and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1954. At the 8th Party Congress in 1956, he was re-elected a CCP Central Committee member and promoted to Politburo alternate member, concurrently serving as secretary of the CCP Secretariat from 1962. In 1957 and 1960, he accompanied major Party leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping
to international meetings of communist parties held in Moscow. His main political activity was in the cultural front, as he directed cultural criticism campaigns.

In 1959 he was appointed a

Minister of Culture in 1965. Shortly after, the Cultural Revolution broke out and Lu Dingyi 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 May 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) and dismissed. He was also criticised for his activity in the Five Man Group, a Central Committee agency in charge of leading the first stages of the Cultural Revolution led by Peng Zhen
, another purged official. He was detained for nearly 13 years.

Lu Dingyi was rehabilitated by the new leadership headed by Deng Xiaoping. In 1979 he was co-opted in the Fifth CPPCC National Committee as its vice-chairman; in the same year, he was co-opted in the CCP Central Committee as a consultant to the Propaganda Department. He was later a member of the Central Advisory Commission.

Lu Dingyi died in Beijing in 1996, several years after his retirement. He was hailed as an outstanding Party member and promoter of socialist culture. His knowledge of the English language also allowed him to translate the conversations between Mao Zedong and Anna Louise Strong.

References

  1. ISBN 9781032139609
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  2. ISBN 9781032139609
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Government offices
Preceded by
Minister of Culture of China

1965–1966 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Head of the
CCP Central Propaganda Department

1943–1952 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Head of the
CCP Central Propaganda Department

1954–1966 		Succeeded by
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