Chapter 132 Chen Renbing was not "corrected" until his death

As the "leader" of the "Zhangluo Alliance" in Shanghai, Chen Renbing was naturally included in the list of "extreme rightists". Professor Chen told me that since he was labeled as a "rightist", he has experienced "seven fights and eight struggles" and was sent to the Shanghai Institute of Socialism to study. Among them, from September to the end of 1958, forty-eight "famous rightists" in Shanghai were sent to Zhuanqiao in suburban Shanghai County for "concentrated study".Among the forty-eight people, there are three female rightists, and one of them is the film actress Wu Yin who is known as "Asia's No. 1 Old Woman"-because Wu Yin is famous for her lifelike performance of old women.

Chen Renbing remembered that the forty-eight people were divided into three groups. The leader of the first group was Lu Yi, who belonged to the first group, the leader of the second group was Xu Zhucheng, and the leader of the third group was Shen Zhiyuan. They live in the countryside, work in the fields in the morning, and write confessions in the afternoon.Twelve people sleep in one room.In addition to the rightists, there are also supervisors, for fear that someone will commit suicide. Everyone sleeps on a cot.When I first went to the countryside, there were so many mosquitoes that I could not sleep peacefully at night.

These people usually have a nanny at home to do housework.When we arrived in the countryside, we had to cook by ourselves.When Chen Renbing was cooking, the room was full of smoke, and his eyes were full of tears!That Li Kangnian, like him, choked to tears. On a rainy day, a rightist surnamed Wu went to wash rice by the river, slipped his feet, and slipped into the river with the rice... Chen Renbing suffered from bacterial subacute endocarditis when he was working in the countryside. He was rescued by Shanghai Fourth People's Hospital and saved his life.Since then, his heart mitral valve closed poorly.The doctor told you not to catch a cold. Every time you catch a cold, the condition will get worse.

Also in 1958, he and his ex-wife divorced. Finally looking forward to taking off the hat.On December 29, 1960, Shanghai's "Liberation Daily" published a report that he and Wang Ruowang took off their rightist hats at the same time.However, after taking off his hat, he is still a "rightist with his hat off". Finally looking forward to going back to school.In 1962, Chen Renbing finally returned to Fudan University to teach British history, American history, and world history. He was too dull, so he held a dance party at home and invited his old friend Shen Zhiyuan and others to dance.Unexpectedly, the "Four Cleanups" movement came, and someone exposed that he held "underground dance parties" at home - because Ke Qingshi was explicitly prohibited from holding dance parties in Shanghai.Now he was being punished again, not to mention that he was a "rightist who took off his hat", because of this he was almost beaten as a bad element.

In early 1964, he married Ms. Chen Yunhui and finally had a family again. He hadn't lived a few days of peace when the "Cultural Revolution" came. He suffered again.He is a dignified professor and doctor, and he actually "supervised labor" and worked as a carpenter for nine years.Anyway, sawing wood, carrying wood, he started.His salary was once reduced to fifty-seven yuan and seven cents—at that time, his rent was forty yuan, leaving only seventeen yuan and seven cents for living expenses. As a last resort, he had no choice but to give up the spacious house above the women's goods store on Huaihai Middle Road in the center of Shanghai, and move to two 8-square-meter huts in Putuo District, Shanghai.

Since 1972, he suffered from pneumonia and myocarditis, and he was really unable to do manual labor. In 1974, at the age of 65, Chen Renbing was finally allowed to retire, and he never had to do carpentry again. Finally, I am looking forward to the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Many unjust cases of "rightists" were vindicated, but Chen Renbing could not be "corrected" because Mao Zedong had named him many times. Chen Renbing had no choice but to write a letter to the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1981, asking for a solution to his problem.Before long, he got a reply:

1. "Rightists" will not be corrected; 2. Restoring the treatment of professors, salary, housing and medical treatment are all treated as professors; 3. Before and after liberation, Mr. Chen Renbing did a lot of useful work for the people, which should be affirmed. In this way, Chen Renbing moved to a high-rise building near the Shanghai Stadium, and his living conditions were improved.It was there that I interviewed him in 1986.At that time, he was suffering from chronic heart failure. Later, I came to another new residence of his, which was more spacious than the one near the Shanghai Stadium.According to the report, according to Chen Renbing's rank, he was not qualified to move to the new house.Considering his many years of suffering, Jiang Zemin, Mayor of Shanghai at that time, personally granted it to him.

Chen Renbing's life was full of ups and downs: the heavy blow in 1957, the ten-year misery of the "Cultural Revolution", and since then he was depressed all day long because he became a "forbidden zone". In his later years, he wrote his memoirs in English and wrote more than 300 pages. I met an American female teacher, her name is JEANNETTRF TAGAMI, her Chinese name is Fu Zhenning.She wrote a biography for Dr. Chen Renbing, which was published in the United States. Chen Renbing was sick in his later years, and he couldn't say that winter in 1988.Fortunately, his illness has been taken seriously by relevant departments.The Shanghai Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League reported to the United Front Work Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and tried to provide medical care as much as possible.Let him live in the cadre ward.Even after he was discharged home, special nurses were sent to give him injections and care.

On December 9, 1990, Chen Renbing vomited while having breakfast, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his face was the color of a pig's liver.Mrs. Chen Yunhui hurriedly called the special nurse.The nurse came and gave Chen Renbing an injection and rescued him. At 9:30 in the morning, Chen Renbing's hand dropped and his heart stopped beating.He died of heart failure. On the 13th, Shanghai's "Wen Wei Po" published "The Farewell Ceremony for Chen Renbing's Body Held", the full text is as follows: According to our newspaper, Mr. Chen Renbing, a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic League, a consultant of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Democratic League, a professor of the History Department of Fudan University, and a well-known person, died on the morning of December 9th at the age of 81 due to a long-term illness.

The farewell ceremony for Mr. Chen Renbing's body was held yesterday morning in the hall of Longhua Funeral Home.Mao Jingquan, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Committee, Zhao Chaogou, deputy chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Democratic League, and relevant people in this city, as well as Mr. Chen Renbing's former friends, attended the farewell ceremony for the remains.The United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Democratic League, the Shanghai CPPCC, the United Front Work Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Municipal Education and Health Office, Fudan University, leaders of relevant parties Chu Tunan, Fei Xiaotong, Qian Weichang, Su Buqing, Wu Bangguo, Xie Xide, Tan Jia Zhen waited to send a wreath.