Hu Qiaomu, who yielded to the ostracism (a procedure under Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years) and wrote a letter of self-criticism addressed to Jiefangjun Bao and Wenyibao (Literary Gazette), in which he apologized for a "lack of balance" in "Bitter Love" and for failing to recognize the power of the party and the people to overcome obstacles in Chinese society, was invited by the Ministry of Culture to participate in a Shanghai conference on film scripts in January 1983.
Hu Qiaomu (4 June 1912  28 September 1992) was a revolutionary, sociologist, Marxist philosopher and prominent politician of People's Republic of China. 
