Fifty-nine years ago today, on September 3, 1966 (July 19, 1966 in the lunar calendar), the famous translator Fu Lei and his wife committed suicide. Fu Lei Fu Lei was born in Nanhui, Shanghai in 1908, a modern translator and scholar. In 1924, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to Shanghai Datong University. The following year, he participated in the "May 30" Movement. In the winter of 1927, he went to France to study liberal arts at the University of Paris. In the spring of 1931, at the invitation of the "Royal Italian Geographical Society", he delivered a famous speech in Rome entitled "The Meaning of the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army and the Struggle between the Northern Warlords", criticizing the dark rule of the Northern Warlords. He returned to China in the autumn of the same year and was hired to teach art history and French at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In the autumn of 1934, he co-founded the weekly "Current Affairs Report" with Ye Changqing During the Anti-Japanese War, he actively participated in various anti-Japanese salvation activities. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he issued a declaration with Ma Xulun and Chen Shutong to prepare for the establishment of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and was elected as the first director. After the founding of New China, he was elected as a representative of the first and second National Cultural Congress and a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He served as a director of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Writers Association and secretary of the Secretariat. Translated 33 famous works of foreign literature. In the 1960s, with his outstanding achievements in researching and translating Balzac's works, he was absorbed by France as a member of the Balzac Studies Association. He was persecuted at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" and hanged himself in his Shanghai apartment on the morning of September 3, 1966 with his