 He was highly acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, and Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's writing.Though sympathetic to socialist ideas, Lu Xun never joined the Communist Party of China.Hu Shih (December 17, 1891 – February 24, 1962) was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat.