A number of Chinese experts and scholars—most of them members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—have died in the recent COVID-19 outbreak, including faculty members at Sun Yat-sen University, a major national university in southern China’s Guangdong Province.
On Dec. 27, Sun Yat-sen University sent an obituary saying that He Zikun, a professor at the university engaged in teaching and researching Marxist and Plekhanov’s ideology, died on Dec. 26, at the age of 90 due to illness.
He is a CCP member and served as the director of the Guangdong Marxist Philosophy Research Association and the director of the Guangdong Socialist Dialectics Research Association….