League of Left-Wing Writers
On January 17, 1931 in Shanghai, 36 communists, including He and five leaders of the League of Left-Wing Writers, were arrested. "Not until many years later did it emerge that [the Shanghai Police's] Special Branch had probably been tipped off by Wang," writes author Ben Macintyre. Wang "regarded the League as a cover for 'dissenting comrades' and wanted them liquidated," Macintyre writes. The next month, 23 of the arrested Communists were executed.