[1] In 1925, Hu Feng participated in the May Thirtieth Movement, and entered Peking University later in the year.

[2] Hu Feng returned to Shanghai in 1933 and became both the head of publicity and the executive secretary of the League of Left-Wing Writers.

[3] After the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Hu Feng became the chief-editor of the magazine July (Chinese: 七月).

"[4] Due to the war, Hu Feng moved the publication of July to Wuhan in October 1937, and to Chongqing in September 1938.

Hung observed that, "For Hu, any type of formulism in general, and traditional and popular national forms specifically, derived from a Confucius 'ruling-class' ethic and had no prerogative claim on New Poetry.

[5] In 1951, some wrote to Wen Yi Bao, requesting that it critique Hu Feng's literary theory again.

[9] During the following Cultural Revolution, Hu Feng and his wife were sent to Lushan, Sichuan for labor re-education.

[10] In January 1970, Hu Feng was accused of desecrating the portrait of Mao and was sentenced for life.

He also translated some stories written in Japanese by authors from Taiwan and Korea, which are altogether published in the collection Shan Ling ("The Mountain Spirit", Chinese: 山灵) in April 1936.

In 1941, he published Lun Minzu Xingshi Wenti ("On National Forms", Chinese: 论民族形式问题).

In 1943, he published Minzu Zhanzheng Yu Wenyi Xingge ("The National War and the Disposition of Literature and Art", Chinese: 民族战争与文艺性格).