Zhou Yang And Modern Revolutionary Literature And Art Movement

In this paper, the major cultural events in Zhou Yang’s life is the main content and the logic of the evolution of modern Chinese revolutionary literature and art is the narrative clue. The paper replay panoramically ups and downs picture around Zhou Yang’s revolutionary literature and art movement in modern Chinese history.The revolutionary literature and art must serve the revolution politics. Therefore, the history of modern Chinese revolution political and development process of modern Chinese revolutionary literature and art is consistent. On the whole, preach, practice, defend, construction and bid farewell to the revolutionary literature and art, is the five chapter of revolutionary literature and art movement in modern china. When Zhou Yang appeared on the stage of revolutionary literature and art, he had occupied the commanding heights of revolutionary literature and art development. So, Zhou Yang’s revolutionary career basically can be divided into five stages.The Era of left League, Zhou Yang as a secretary of the League of Leftist Writers made all-out efforts to preach revolutionary literature and art. During this period, the Chinese revolution politics is at low ebb, the development of revolutionary literature and art lacked reality soil and clear guidance, Zhou Yang could only abstractly and dogmatically eulogize the revolutionary literature and art. Even, because obeyed to the instruction of International Union of Communist, Zhou Yang violated Lu Xun, the left-wing literary leader.The Yanan times, Zhou Yang creatively established historical position of Mao Zedong Speech in the revolutionary literature and art history, and he was very fruitful to practice revolutionary literature and art according to speech. During this period, the Chinese revolution politics was out of low tide. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong, the revolutionary political leaders, Zhou Yang’s literary talent fully revealed, and has made great contribution to the new literature and art of the people.After the founding of the PRC, in order to defend the revolutionary literature born in the revolutionary war, Mao Zedong launched movement on the literary and artistic criticism again and again. As the main leadership of literature and art front, Zhou Yang was indispensable duty to stand at the forefront of these literary and art struggle. He hit a large numbers of people in the industry of literature and art, harmed Chinese culture, and developed a rather bad literary and art criticism paradigm. Along with the struggle of defending revolutionary literature and art, the leadership of the CPC has sought to build China’s revolutionary literature and art. However, due to continuous change of the domestic and international political situation and frustration of socialist economic construction, the construction of revolutionary literature and art was in the swing between correcting left and combating right. So, Zhou Yang alternated between vigorously combating right and strongly correcting left. Finally, because Incorrigibility of Chinese hard-left politics, Zhou Yang not only failed to stop the flush of leftist literature and art but also was devoured by hard-left political movement.After the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Yang was aware of his own error. So he apologized to people he had hurt in all the literary and artistic struggle, reflected revolutionary literature and art and Marx doctrine. He discussed alienation of socialist society and abstractly advocated humanitarianism. Because of these, Zhou Yang played beautiful music in their old age, but he again was criticized. This led Zhou Yang’s life tragedy of the last years.Development of literature and art has its own inherent law. As a literary theorist, Zhou Yang could have insight into the basic law of the development of literature and art. So, in the different historical period, when relatively detached from political revolution, when found the evils of revolutionary literature and art, or political environment is loose, Zhou Yang’s literature and art theory activity shows respect for the laws of literature and art occasionally.We must put forward a universal value standard from the height of historical development to evaluate Zhou Yang. The historical inevitability of the Chinese revolutionary literature and art is that it is the historical demand of the Chinese revolutionary politics development. However, reviewing the history, the era of social revolution must evolve into the era of modern democratic constitutionalism. On this view, Zhou Yang’s literary and artistic concept had not been divorced from the former historical context. Therefore, the theory and practice of Zhou Yang’s literature and art is backward, and should vigorously criticize it.Compared to other leftist senior cadres of the Communist Party of China, Zhou Yang’s confession in his last years is a rare progressive measure. However, this is still not complete. Root of Zhou Yang’s tragedy in his old age is that already governing Communist Party of China did not correctly handle the relationship between party spirit and personality.