The novelist Lao She was among the most tragic victims, as Han Hsiu relates: "Denounced in the Writers 'Association and then paraded in the streets, he was forced to kneel down and set fire to his books and to hold up a sign condemning himself.
老舍是最悲哀的，韓秀在書中說：「在文聯挨了文鬥，之後在街上挨了武鬥。