page_title: Guo Moruo
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Guo Moruo / Biography / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Guo Muoruo's family, with wife Tomiko Satō中文（中国大陆）‎: 郭沫若的家庭
context_page_description: Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer.
context_section_description: Guo had five children (four sons and a daughter) with Sato Tomiko and six with Yu Liqun (four sons and two daughters). An article published in the 2000s said that eight out of the eleven were alive, and that three have died.
  With Sato Tomiko (listed chronologically in the order of birth):
  son Guo Hefu (郭和夫) (December 12 (or 31, according to other sources) 1917, Okayama - September 13, 1994). A chemist, he moved from Japan to Taiwan in 1946 and to mainland China in 1949. He was the founder of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  son Guo Bo (郭博) (born 1920), a renowned architect and photographer. He came to China in 1955, invited by his father, and worked in Shanghai, where he participated in the design of many of its famous modern buildings. Guo Bu is also known as a photographer of Shanghai's heritage architecture; an album of his photographic work has been published as a book.
  son Guo Fusheng (郭福生).
  daughter Guo Shuyu (郭淑禹), a Japanese-language teacher, now deceased.
  son Guo Zhihong (郭志宏).
  With Yu Liqun  (listed chronologically in the order of birth):
  son Guo Hanying (郭汉英) (born 1941, Chongqing). An  internationally published theoretical physicist.
  daughter Guo Shuying (郭庶英).  She published a book about her father.
  son Guo Shiying (郭世英) (1942 - April 22, 1968). In 1962, while a philosophy student at Beijing University, he created an "underground" "X Poetry Society". In the summer of 1963 the society was exposed and deemed subversive. Guo Shiying was sentenced to re-education through labor. While working at a farm in Henan province, he developed interest in agriculture. Returning to Beijing in 1965, he enrolled at Beijing Agricultural University.  In 1968, kidnapped by Red Guards and "tried" by their "court" for his poetry-society activity years before he jumped out of the window of the third-floor room where he was held and died at the age of 26. His father in his later writing expressed regret for encouraging his son to return to Beijing from the farm, thinking that it indirectly led to his death.
  son Guo Minying (郭民英), (November 1943, Chongqing  - April 12, 1967). His death is described as an unexpected suicide.
  daughter Guo Pingying (郭平英)
  son Guo Jianying (郭建英) (born 1953).
caption: Guo Muoruo and Sato Tomiko with their children
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