Study On Literary Monthly(1930-1941)

The paper selects Literary Monthly (1930-1941) as the research object, which was founded in Nanjing, and ceased publication in Chongqing with KMT background. It was a literary journal of comparatively great influence, rich in content, and lasting longest of its kind in the right-wing camp. Literary Monthly was founded in the 1930s when literary journals flourished. The first chapter compares Literary Monthly with several other right-wing journals also published in the year of 1930, and Literary Monthly becomes prominent and unique, being "away from the commercial atmosphere and the partisan political color, and with a focus on literature itself. Literary Monthly did so in a fight against the left-wing literary journals, in order to attract as much as possible to win over the middle writers. Chapter Ⅱ first reviews the basic situation of Chinese Literature and Arts Association, the organizer of Literary Monthly, and to clarify its main editors, history, authors’ group, financing and publishing issues and other related aspects. The historical survey of Chinese Literature and Arts Association is trying to show the KMT with efforts to strengthen control of the periodical press; the study on the editors-in-chief of different periods is to explore the cultural mentality of the different groups of intellectuals and their influence on the journal. The third chapter describes its outstanding literary works and their text analysis under two major themes, "national identity" and "humane care", the emergence of a number of outstanding literary works, which few people mentioned. The fourth chapter describes its literary criticism, which, on the whole, lacks a strong mainstream sound, and is basically disorderly. The paper tries to offer an overview, with a focus on the literary criticism of Wang Pingling and Han Shihen. Literary Monthly shares common concerns of non-left-wing writers and the literary world to the destiny of the nation. It belongs to the right-wing literature, but it presents a compatible and absorptive atmosphere and a specific form of democratic literature, which the current authority constructed. Literary Monthly highlights a modern journal media, rich in variety of forms, under the influence of multiple political, economic, and literary factors.