The Establishment Of The Literatary Institution In The 1950s

The modern literary institution generated with the marketization of the literature in the late Qing Dynasty. The literary institution develops freely in the late Qing Dynasty’s and the contemporary literature history, but the political force got involved to try to establish a complete and systematic literary institution to serve the government in Yan’an period. The political power was still not unified, so was the Yan’an style literary institution. In the 1950 s, political words played the leading role in the development of the literary institution, and a unified, systematic and complete literary institution was established, so the literary institution in 50 s is typical.The most obvious features of the literary institution in the 1950 s were the writers’ institutionalization, the publications’ departmentalization and the writing’s ideologicalization, which respectively mean the manifestation of the writing body, publishment and the writing ideology. These three aspects are also the most important elements in the literary institution. Writers are not freelancers who living on writing, and they are brought into the government offices and publishing institutions controlled by the government. The publications’ publishment and currency unify with the planned economy. The private publications disappeared quickly and almost all the publications and the literary organizations are become the government offices or institutions. The new China’s environment is unprecedented, and under the lead of the strong socialist ideology, the writers take the writing as the tool to propagandize the ideology consciously or unconsciously. These are the most obvious features of the literary institution in the 50 s. The literature is influence by this kind of literary institution greatly and becomes different. The literary institution established in the 50 s continued in the late 70 s,which lasted 30 years and has a great influence. We can analyze today’s many phenomenons combing with the literary institution’s establishment and features in the 1950 s, which is the real significance. The paper analyzes the establishment and features of the literary institution in the 1950 s and research the institution’s influence on the literature, which will have reference significance for today’s literature.