Zheng Boqi’s Life And Literary Creation In Chongqing(1939-1943)

Zheng Boqi and his family returned to Shaanxi before the fall of Shanghai in 1937.One year later,due to the increasingly complicated political situation and tense cultural atmosphere in Xi ’an,under the influence of the temporary failure of geographical relationship,the strong call of friendship and the internal cause of nationalism,Zheng Boqi chose to pass through Chengdu to Chongqing.Zheng Boqi reached Chongqing in mid-January,1939.During his stay,he lived in Lianglukou,Laijiaqiao,Xiemachang in Ba County and other places.He participated in various kinds of work in important cultural organizations,such as the Literary Association and the Literary Trade Union,and gained multiple identities such as core member of cultural institutions,chief editor,editorial board of journals,and dramatist.Zheng Boqi regarded cultural work as an important form of strengthening the country and enlightening people.During five-year stay in Chongqing from 1939 to 1943,Zheng Boqi wrote more than 40 works.Among these works,he presented the international situation and confrontation between Japan and the Soviet Union,and formed the double critique internally and externally,which was quite distinctive in the rewriting series.There are also many essays highlighting the geographical relationship,emphasizing his experience in Xi’an,showing three images in the text as the green in cultural desert,the resource of revolutionary spirit and the carrier of nation-state issues,and intervening in the context of the National Day in 1939 and 1941.Zheng Boqi projected the imagination of the wartime nation state on Harbin and Xi ’an.He mainly observed China through global and local perspectives in the 1940 s.Chongqing is rarely seen in Zheng Boqi’s writings during this period,and it was only described as the cultural field of the Anti-Japanese War.He mainly focused on the theoretical discussion of Anti-Japanese War literature.Zheng Boqi created more literary theories than literary works in this period,and carried out the preliminary construction and systematic integration of anti-Japanese literary views.In Zheng Boqi’s opinion,Anti-Japanese War literature should mobilize the public to participate in the ressistance and serve the military and political propaganda.The task of literature should change flexibly according to the progress of the war."national form" includes folk forms as well as the foreign classical literature,and minority literature.In addition,the decisive factor is Chinese features.The content of Sinicization is realistic and historical,create personalized positive typical characters in typical environment.Zheng Boqi closed the suspension between old form and new content,theoretically deducing the legitimacy of the old form through the concept of "Sinicized Chinese literature"During Zheng Boqi’s stay in Chongqing from 1939 to 1943 for nearly five years,Zheng Boqi participated in many literary activities,gained multiple cultural identities,and accumulated social capital and symbolic capital.While promoting the depth of his writing with the pointview of world and local,he transformed national form into Sinicization,and proved the legitimacy of the existence of folk form with the dialectical relationship between form and content,which became the theoretical stone to the practice of folk literature and the integration with people’s literature after he returned to Xi ’an in the autumn of 1943.