 Although Zheng Junli's 'leftist' films received support from the Communist Party, he would later be persecuted by the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution.He died in prison in 1969 at the age of 58 Similarly, the screenwriter Chen Baichen was a member of CPC since 1932.He wrote many scripts to support CPC during the civil war, but he was treated as a traitor based on his scripts, and imprisoned for many years.