Yu Luoke
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Date(s) of Arrest:
January 5, 1968
Prison Terms:
Executed
Charges:
Making counterrevolutionary propaganda, organizing counterrevolutionary cliques
Crime:
Writing an essay critical of party policies
January 5, 1968
Prison Terms:
Executed
Charges:
Making counterrevolutionary propaganda, organizing counterrevolutionary cliques
Crime:
Writing an essay critical of party policies
As the son of so-called “bourgeois class,” Yu Luoke was not permitted to attend university. In 1966, Yu published the essay, "On Family Origin" arguing against the policy of determining a person's class in contemporary society by his or her family's "class background."
In 1967, CCP's Central Cultural Revolutionary Group deemed Yu's essay a "poisonous weed." The twenty-seven year old Yu was sentenced to death in 1970 at a public trial. He was executed immediately after his conviction.
【Article】On Family Background（Chinese）
【Video】Yu Luoke and his “On Family Background”
【E-Book】YU LUOKE And JOURNAL OF MIDDLE SCHOOL CULTURAL REVOLUTION（by YU LUOJIN）
