As a foundational work of Chinese socialist realism, Baofeng Zhouyu is one of the most renowned novels translated in the People’s Republic of China in its first seventeen-year period (1949-1966), and its English translation The Hurricane gained popularity in the English world. The paper aims to explore the English version done by Xu Mengxiong and published in 1955 by the Foreign Languages Press, and to reveal how the political ideology conditioned the representation of class discourse in the translation work and its close relation to the construction of socialist China.