Mu Xin (July 11, 1920 - September 3, 2010) was a native of Fugou, Henan Province. Mu joined the Communist Party of China in 1937 and participated in resisting the Japanese aggression in Shanxi Province. In 1938, he founded the newspaper Combat and served as a bureau chief and special correspondent of a local war zone news agency; in 1940, he co-founded the Anti-Japanese War Daily (later called the Jinsui Daily), serving as the director of the news and interviews department and director of International News Agency’s local station; he also served as Xinhua News Agency’s special correspondent and bureau chief of its local war zone office.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mu served as director of Xinhua News Agency’s local offices, propaganda director of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and the PLA Military Engineering Institute in Harbin, and director of the Journalism Department of CCP’s Central Party School. After 1957, Mu served as the party secretary, deputy editor, and editor-in-chief of the Guangming Daily.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mu was a member of the Central Cultural Revolution Group, before he was persecuted for allegedly opposing the movement and insulting Jiang Qing —the Group’s deputy director and Mao’s wife. He was imprisoned in 1968. After his release in 1975, he served as deputy director of the Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, as well as director and editor-in-chief of People's Pictorial before retiring in 1984. He died of illness in 2010.
Mu Xin is the author of a number of books, including Recollections of Ten Years in Guangming Daily, which discusses the major events and issues in the ideological field in the decade after 1957, and Long Memories after the Disaster: Chronicle of Ten Years of Turmoil, which discusses the Cultural Revolution.
