Yin Fu

Independent activity Marxism–Leninism 1909.6.11.–1931.2.7. ✕ Executed

Poet among the Five Martyrs of the Left League, who wrote his farewell to a Nationalist elder brother and was shot at Longhua

Born Xu Xiaojie in Xiangshan, Zhejiang. His father died early and his eldest brother Xu Peigen took him to school in Shanghai. Denounced in April 1927, he spent three months in prison and was freed through his brother's efforts. In 1928 he joined the Sun Society and, in April, the Communist Party; in March 1929 he broke financially with his family and returned to Shanghai. His poem "Farewell, Brother" is dated 12 April that year. He came to know Lu Xun, helped edit the Communist Youth League's Lenin Youth, and joined the League of Left-Wing Writers at its founding in March 1930. Arrested for the fourth time on 17 January 1931, he was shot at the Longhua execution ground in Shanghai on the night of 7 February, one of the League's Five Martyrs.

Also known as: Xu Xiaojie · Bai Mang