On this day, 90 years ago, on July 9, 1935 (June 9, 1935), Du Chongyuan was sentenced to prison. Du was sentenced to one year and two months in prison by the reactionary authorities, which became a sensational "new life event" at home and abroad. After he was detained in Shanghai Caohejing No. 2 Prison, patriots from all walks of life visited him. On July 9, 1935, Du Zhongyuan, editor-in-chief and publisher of "New Life" Weekly, was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for "defamation" by the Second Branch of Jiangsu High Court (located in Shanghai) for the article "The Emperor of Gossip". On July 9, during the trial, the judge only asked a few questions, that is, he retreated to the inner room to discuss the sentencing; while the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai actually infiltrated the inner room to monitor the judge's meeting. Under pressure from the Japanese side, the court convicted Du Chongyuan of "joint defamation for spreading words". Du Chongyuan shouted angrily: "The law has been conquered by the Japanese! I don't believe there are any laws in China!" News broke that the public opinion circles accused the Japanese side of making a fuss, and overseas Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other places also protested. Lawyer Wu Kaisheng took advantage of the favorable momentum at home and abroad to argue repeatedly with the court, so that Du Chongyuan finally obtained the treatment of medical bail. Du Chongyuan, a magazine of "New Life" banned by the authorities, was born into a poor peasant family. In 1905, he entered a local private school and studied hard. In 1911, he was admitted to the provincial two-level normal secondary school. During this time, he participated in the students' anti-imperialist patriotic movement. In 1917, he obtained official fees to study in Japan and entered the Tokyo Higher Industrial School to study ceramic manufacturing. In 1922, he organized anti-imperialist demonstrations for international students in Tokyo. During the Spring Festival of the same year, he was elected as a representative of returning to China and went to Shenyang, Peiping (now Beijing), Tianjin and other places to carry out anti-imperialist propaganda. In the spring of 1923, he returned to China and founded our country's first machine-made pottery factory - Zhaoxin Kiln Industry Company outside the North Gate of Shenyang. In 1926, he participated in the organization of activities against the establishment of a consulate in Japan. In 1927, he converted the brick factory into a porcelain factory and gradually developed into a kiln factory with the largest scale of Chinese national capital operation. In 1929, he was elected as the vice president of the Fengtian Province (now Liaoning Province) General Chamber of Commerce and became a well-known figure in the Northeast business community. In the same year, Zhang Xueliang also served as the secretary of the general office of the commander of the Northeast Border Guard, assisting in handling diplomatic issues with Japan. At the same time, he also organized the Northeast National Diplomatic Association with friends to promote the anti-Japanese movement in Northeast China. In 1930, he participated in the Shanghai National Exhibition of Domestic Goods, advocating the development of domestic products and boycotting Japanese products. After the "September 18" Incident in 1931, he was wanted by the Japanese Kwantung Army and forced to move to Peiping. On September 27 of the same year, he participated in the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association organized by Yan Baohang, Gao Chongmin, and Wang Huayi, and was elected as the executive director and deputy minister of the Political Department. In the spring of 1936, the Kuomintang authorities, deterred by public pressure, moved him to Hongqiao Sanatorium for house arrest. In April of the same year, Zhang Xueliang went to Shanghai to visit the prison, and the two In August of the same year, Yang Hucheng took the opportunity of dental treatment to stay in Hongqiao Sanatorium, and got along with him day and night to discuss the plan of resisting Japan and saving the country. In September, after his release, he immediately went to Xi'an to talk with Zhang and Yang, which promoted the "Xi'an Incident". On the third day of the incident, he was placed under house arrest in Jiangxi and escorted to Nanjing until Chiang Kai-shek was released. After the "Xi'an Incident" was peacefully resolved, he was recommended by the Communist Party of China as the head of the coalition government together with Song Qingling, Shen Junru and others. After the "July 7th" Incident in 1937, he ventured to Wuhan and various parts of the northwest to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. In September, he wrote an article in the third issue of the "Anti-Japanese War" that introduced the life of Zhou Enlai and published the remarks of Zhou Enlai, Xu Xiangqian and others. In 1938, he met Zhou Enlai many times in Wuhan, Hong Kong and other places, and gradually established a firm belief in the Chinese Communist Party. In 1939, he was invited to Xinjiang to establish Xinjiang College as the dean. He did his best to hire Mao Dun, Sakong, Zhang Zhongshi and others to teach, and also invited Zhao Dan, Gao Tao, Yu Cun, Wang Weiyi and others to engage in literary and artistic propaganda activities, and purchased 3 truckloads of books in the mainland called "Cultural Train". At the same time, he taught the United Front class of the Chinese Communist Party at Xinjiang College, organized the "Xinjiang Student Summer Task Force" to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, and often published articles promoting progressive ideas in the "Anti-Imperialist Front", so he was hated by Sheng Shicai, the supervisor of Xinjiang. In 1940, he was placed under house arrest at home. On May 18 of the following year, Sheng Shicai first fabricated the charges of "traitor" and "Trotskyist" and arrested him, and then tortured him more than 30 times to force him to admit that he was a "Soviet spy" and a "secret Communist Party member". But he was always unyielding. In June 1944, Sheng Shicai sent someone to poison his food, causing his intestines and lungs to rot through, and he vomited a lot of blood and stool. Then, he was injected with two powerful poisonous needles, transported to the high wall of the East Garden, and then pushed down from the wall to kill him, and the corpse was destroyed. After the liberation of the whole country, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a special delegation to Xinjiang to search for his remains, but they were not found. In 1986, a collection of his writings was published as "Du Chongyuan's Collected Works". Comment: The New Literary Prison by the Japanese.