Guo Moruo’s daughter recalls her father: Pick up a pen when you have a pen, and pick up a gun when you've got a gun. Guo Shuying showed reporters photos of her father from the Huangpu period.

She told reporters that her father was not only a cultural man, but also a soldier and a revolutionary. In 1924, his father translated "Social Organization and Social Revolution" written by the Japanese economist Kawakami Hajime, and in the process he became familiar with the ideas of Marxism-Leninism.