Hu Hua (simplified Chinese: 胡华; traditional Chinese: 胡華; pinyin: Hú Huá; December 1921 – 14 December 1987) was a Chinese historian. A native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, Hu Hua was born in December 1921. He began working alongside the Communist Party of China to oppose Japanese forces in 1937, shortly after the Second Sino-Japanese War had started. Hu was assigned to the Eighth Route Army in 1938, and was active in Wuhan and Changsha. Hu formally joined the Communist Party of China in February 1939, by which time he had relocated to northern Shanxi. Hu began his teaching and research career in April 1940, at the North China United University. Throughout the 1940s, Hu taught at several educational institutions in North China. In 1948, the Central Committee convened a group of academics led by Hu,