Research On Morning Light Publishing Company And Its Literature Series(1946-1949)

The Morning Light Publishing Company is a small publishing company which was founded by Lau Shaw and Zhao Jiabi in 1946.They divided their work between them.As an editor,Zhao Jiabi was responsible for the planning and publishing of the series.As a writer,Lau Shaw was responsible for writing works.The company published two literary series: The Morning Light Literature Series and The Morning Light World Literature Series.The former is a collection of writings,and the latter is a collection of translations.Many of Lau Shaw’s works have been included in The Morning Light Literature Series,accounting for about half of the total.The Morning Light world Literature Series was carefully planned and compiled by Zhao Jiabi.The relationship between The Morning Light Literature Series and its authors is important.Although they are few in number,they carry a lot of weight.From the outside,the company worked with writers from “Liang You” and Renaissance.For example,Zhang Tianyi,Geng Jizhi and Duanmu Hongliang had published many new books as "Liang You" writers.From the inside,the company has a closer relationship with writer Lau Shaw.As a partner,he was mainly responsible for writing and had contributed 13 works.These writers had made great contributions to the publication of the literature series and promoted the development of new literature.The Morning Light Literature Series contained 30 literary works of 15 famous writers at that time with various genres.The series has a clear tendency of realism and it inherits the new literary tradition of the May Fourth New Literature and it shows the literary style of the 1930 s and 1940 s to some extent.On the one hand,the works written in the 1940 s were often set in the context of the war and expressed the feelings of resistance against Japan with deep feelings of home and country such as Cremation,The Great River.On the other hand,the series refutes the dark society.For example,The Wedding reveals the alienation of city to human and The Lowly also reveals how culture tortures to kill people’s spirit.In addition,the series also explores life,focusing on "human" itself with a compassionate color such as The Fourth Ward and Fortress Besieged.As the editor and publisher of the May Fourth new literature,Zhao Jiabi published the books,which reflected his responsible literary feelings as an intellectual.Although he considered commercial factors,these works reflected the serious thinking of intellectuals about life and society in the 1940 s.The Morning Light world Literature Series focuses on the translation of two types of modern American literature.The first category describes the down-to-earth life of modern America such as The Leaves of Grass and Life on the Mississippi.They extoll the values of democracy and freedom in upbeat and unvarnished prose.The second category describes people’s confusion under the weight of war and economic crisis such as Of Mice and Men and collection of Hemingway stories.These novels write in a bleak,melancholy style about the frustration of shattered dreams.These two kinds of works involve novel,poetry,prose and drama,with rich content.At the same time,there is also a research work called On Native Ground which plays an overall role.In addition,both of the authors and the translators are masters,which ensure the high quality of the series.In a word,despite its small size and the small number of books it publishes,The Morning Light Publishing Company is of high quality.These series reflect the characteristics of age and many of works are regarded as classics.Therefore The Morning Light Publishing Company has promoted the further development of Chinese new literature.