[1][2][3][4] In 1952, Liu Shousong became an associate professor, then a professor of the Chinese Department of Wuhan University, lecturing on the history of Chinese literature.
[5] In the following year, he was elected vice-chairman of the Wuhan branch of the China Writers' Association.
He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and on March 16, 1969, he hanged himself with his wife, Zhang Jifang, and died in disgrace.
[6][7] Around the time of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), the work of vindicating wrongful convictions began to unfold.
Luo Wen, then chairman of the Hubei Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture and chairman of the Hubei Provincial Association of Writers, proposed to vindicate Liu Shousong, after which the "Liu Shousong Vindication Conference" was held in the gymnasium of Wuhan University.