Hu Sheng (11 January 1918 – 5 November 2000), was a Chinese Marxist theorist and historian.

[1] After the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, he moved to Central China and joined the Chinese Communist Party.

From the age of 17 to 30, Hu wrote numerous articles for the Communist and other progressive newspapers and magazines and his published works summed up more than 1 million Chinese characters and had a great impact on ideological and cultural circles as well as young intellectuals.

Hu was responsible for the Party's theory research and publicity works for a long time after the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949.

In 1996, Hu donated most of his books to a library in Hubei Province and established a fund to award outstanding young intellectuals.