Hu Fuming

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Hu Fuming was a Chinese scholar and politician best known for his influential 1978 essay “Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth,” which helped launch China’s ideological shift toward reform and opening.

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instanceOf Chinese politician
Chinese scholar
essay
human
author Hu Fuming NERFINISHED
authorOf Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth
contributedTo debate on the criterion of truth in late 1970s China
countryOfCitizenship China
education university-level education in China
era post-Mao China
familyName Hu NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Marxist theory
ideological studies
philosophy
genre ideological essay
political philosophy
givenName Fuming NERFINISHED
historicalSignificance helped legitimize China’s reform and opening policies
ideologicalPosition advocacy of seeking truth from facts
impact weakened dominance of Cultural Revolution-era dogma in China’s ideology
influenced ideological shift toward reform and opening in China
influencedBy Deng Xiaoping Theory NERFINISHED
Mao Zedong Thought NERFINISHED
Marxism NERFINISHED
knownFor challenging dogmatic interpretations of Marxism in China
promoting the idea that practice is the test of truth
language Chinese
languageOfWork Chinese
movement Chinese economic reform and opening-up
name Hu Fuming NERFINISHED
nationality Chinese
notability author of a landmark 1978 essay on truth and practice
notableWork Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth NERFINISHED
occupation politician
scholar
philosophicalView truth should be tested in social practice
placeOfActivity China NERFINISHED
politicalAlignment Chinese Communist Party NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1978
region Mainland China NERFINISHED
roleInEvent intellectual precursor to China’s reform era
timePeriodOfActivity 1970s
1980s
1990s

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