The Legitimate Argument Of The Revolutionary History

The dissertation develops the argument about the revolutionary historical literature in the 1949-1966 through the careful studying of the literary history, the interpretation of the specific works and the analysis of the contemporary political trends. It explores how this literary type embodies the Chinese revolutionary history, how the Chinese revolutionary history influences it in turn. Considering their intimate relationship, it also studies how the revolutionary historical literature in the 1949-1966 provides the legitimate argument for the new-born political power and the process in which it finally establishes a whole new Chinese revolutionary historical genealogy.The first book mainly concerns the way by which the modern revolutionary history is embodied in the revolutionary historical literature in the 1949-1966. It divides this revolutionary era into four phases: the era of the old democratic revolution, that of the first civil war, that of the anti-Japanese war and of the liberation war. And it respectively elaborates the issues of how the revolutionary historical novels which take the old democratic revolution as its theme confront the evaluation which the new ideology makes upon the old democratic revolutionary history, of how those novels which deal with the first civil war exhibit the activities of the earlier communists, of how the guerrilla battles are delineated in those which take the anti-Japanese war, and of how the regular wars between the Chinese Kuomintang and Communist party are presented in those which deal with the liberation war.The second book contains the typological analysis of the revolutionary historical novels in the 1949-1966. It explores the forms and the ways of presenting the issues of the covert of the party route, of the vicissitudes of "the second route" , of the premature ending of the statement about human relationship and human nature, and of the recessive existence of the folk culture in the novels in the 1949-1966. The argument involves the relationship between the era and the misreading of the texts, the images of the petty bourgeoisie, the fate of the intellectuals, the theory of humanities and the situation of the folk culture in the earlier time of the new China. And the elaboration greatly expands and enriches the connotative meaning of the revolutionary historical novels in the 1949-1966.