Hu Lancheng (Feb 28, 1906 – July 25, 1981) was a Chinese

China

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 writer

Writer

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 and editor. He was married to the novelist Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....

 from 1943 to 1947.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

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 he collaborated with the Japanese, serving briefly in the puppet government in China headed by Wang Jingwei

Wang Jingwei

Wang Jingwei , alternate name Wang Zhaoming, was a Chinese politician. He was initially known as a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang , but later became increasingly anti-Communist after his efforts to collaborate with the CCP ended in political failure...

 in 1939-40. This fact made many Chinese regard him as a Hanjian

Hanjian

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 or traitor, and led to intense controversy regarding the value of his works (including those which were non-political).

After the war, he went into hiding, eventually fleeing to Tokyo, Japan. In the early 1970s he taught in the Chinese Culture University

Chinese Culture University

Chinese Culture University is a private, Taiwanese university located on Yang Ming Mountain in the Shilin District of Taipei, Taiwan. CCU was established in 1962 and is one of the largest universities in Taiwan with an enrollment of about 32,000 students...

in Taiwan for several years, until popular pressure forced him to return to Tokyo, where he died in 1981.

Works

• 山河歲月(Shan He Sui Yue, Times of the Earth), a study on Chinese Civilization
• 今生今世(Jinsen Jinshi, This Life, These Times), a memoir
• 禪是一枝花(Chan Shi Yi Zhi Hua, Zen is a Flower), a study in Buddhism
• 中國文學史話(Zhongguo Wenxue Shihua, An Anecdote of Chinese Literature), a study on the history of Chinese literature
• 建國新書(Jianguo Xinshu, A New Book on State-building ), political philosophy
• 革命要詩與學問(Gemin Yao Shi Yu Xuewen, Revolution Needs Poetry and Learning), political philosophy