1903 was born in a poor family. When his father died in childhood, his mother embroidered and sewed for him to go to school. 19 16 was admitted to Changsha Normal University. Influenced by famous teachers such as Xu Teli and Zhu, he often reads progressive books and periodicals with classmates and friends such as Cao Bohan and Jiang Changqing, and gradually broadens his mind and forms a simple patriotic thought. 192 1 After graduation, he taught in the tutorial school affiliated to Hunan Self-study University founded by Mao Zedong. I have met leaders of Hunan Party organizations, such as Li and others, and my thoughts are relatively revolutionary. 1927 On May 2 1, Ma Ri incident occurred in Changsha, and many revolutionaries were killed. He was extremely indignant and worried, and rushed to rescue his comrades in arms. 1928, harsh environment plus China. Then he went to Shanghai, where the Party went to work at the Anhui Provincial Party Committee Secretary, and was arrested and imprisoned for a traitor's informer. During his six years in prison, he never showed his identity, insisted on teaching himself Das Kapital and Japanese, and organized difficult friends to study.
After 1934 was released, he went to Shanghai and the relationship between the parties quickly recovered. His public identity is the director of the reading guidance department of Shanghai Shenbao, and he opened a reading guidance column in the newspaper to actively promote anti-Japanese and national salvation. Also with Li Gongpu, Ai Siqi and so on. He founded the bimonthly Reading Life. In the following six years, he participated in the editing of Life Daily hosted by Zou Taofen in Hongkong, founded National Weekly in Hankou and served as editor-in-chief, merged National Weekly and three Japanese periodicals into three Japanese periodicals in Chongqing, co-edited with Zou Tong, and served as editor-in-chief of Life Bookstore. He has written books such as How to Learn Social Sciences by Self-study, Streets and Alleys, Social Outlook, Why Live, Basic Knowledge of Saving the Country, Difficulties and Culture, with a total of more than 6,543,800 words, which have been widely welcomed and praised by celebrities. Mao Zedong praised street talk as a truly popular and valuable reading. He also had extensive contacts with Shen Junru, Li Gongpu, Shi Liang and other cultural progressives, actively carried out the anti-Japanese national United front work, participated in the establishment of the National Salvation Association, supported the December 29th Movement and protested the arrest of the Seven Gentlemen. /kloc-in the winter of 0/940, he left Chongqing for Yan 'an, and successively served as a senator, member of the border government and director of education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as director of Beijing Education Bureau, minister of education, director of Central Education Research Institute, member of the State Council Science Planning Commission, editor-in-chief of People's Education and vice minister of education. He is a deputy to the Eighth National Congress of communist party, China, and a member of the First and Second China People's Political Consultative Conference. 1957 was wrongly classified as a rightist. He was falsely accused of being a traitor in the "Cultural Revolution". 1968 was persecuted to death at the age of 65. 1June, 979, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China rehabilitated him. There are many books, including Sociological Common Sense and Selected Papers of Liu Kun.