Imprisonment And Freedom

The anti-Japan war has just come to an end, and civil war would break out in Peking in 1940s. The ART TIMES started publication in June of 1946.As depicted by the title of the Journal, it is the reflection of the northern literary at that time in the sense of literature; meanwhile, it followed the new tide from the May 4th new literature and leaded the new-liberation literature after the establishment of new China. Although the ART TIMES published only 6 episodes, it was the only large-scale literary journal。It belongs to the Enemy-occupied Area Literature in style. The dissertation is divided into 3 chapters and introduction and conclusion in addition.The Journal is established in Peking in the later period of enemy-occupation. During the enemy-occupation period, Peking has been once fade, and majority of literates came to the south of China. Peking was segregated from the main cultural activities centers, such as Chongqing, Shanbei and Kunming etc., it infinitely contacted with enemy-occupied cities, such as Shanghai, Nanjing.etc. The Peking literature during the enemy-occupied period was isolatedly grown up in the comparative enclosed environment. Meanwhile, the high-pressure colonial policy from Japanese invaders deprived the literature space. The establishment of the Journal made up for the blank space of the Peking literature. It provided with a forum to collect many works of literature which can not be collected elsewhere. When it was first established, it was supported by many authors from home and abroad, many authors contributed to it. The Journal represents the characteristics of the times : criticism of despotism, set up of the scientific thought of democracy, establishment of awareness of individual rights ,the establishment of ideological emancipation and the concept of truth. In this part, the author makes a brief introduction to the poet Nanxing, the chief editor and founder of the Journal. When the new national sprits has already been established, the thoughts of people shows the nature of contradiction and confusion. All above is embodied in the ART TIMES.As far as Enemy-occupied literature is concerned, it is nor a pure concept about area or time, but is an unique cultural phenomenon in a given area, time and environment. The works collected in the Journal need to be classified. Liying, in her TWO CRISISES listed the attitudes of politician and unethical merchant towards the works of art during that time. The politician treated the works of art as publicity material. While, unethical merchant treated the works of art as toxins. Actually it is a brilliant and brave behavior to treat novels, even poems as leaflets, advertisements and slogans. About the styles of works,it analyzes the Peking-style works of art. Peking-style is an unique schools of literature, Fei ming, Shen Congwen, Li Jianwu,and Zhu Guangqian are the main members of it. It is called Peking-style because the authors of it mainly appeared on the Peking-Tianjin literature stage, and their works were published in the Peking-Tianjin journals, their art styles are the same. The basic characteristic of Peking-style is its concern of the human life. It keeps a distance from political struggle. It centerd on unique characteristic of art. Their works reelected art-centered view that insisting the pure literary taste. It also reflected the aesthetic consciousness with the principles of haromony, restraint and fitness.. The appear of Peking-style broadly enrich modern Chinese literature. BY its flexible writing style, it depicted the pure beauty of the natural human character and exhibited an ideal world full of pastoral moods.. Therefore, it catered for human nature, demonstrated an artistic conception of picturesque. The works of Zhu Guangqian and Nan Xing is appreciated and analyzed in this chapter. Then it analyzed the new poetry, especially the poems by Wu Xinhua. Thirdly, it researches the works reflecting the praising the heroes, and makes a comparison with the works by Xie Bingying and Bi Jichu. Additionally, it analyzes the feminist literature reflected in the Journal, especially the poem Snow-Viewing by Zhi Ping, it analyzes the source and flow of feminist literature. In a short sentence, the ART TIMES is established in a environment that the hinge between war and peace, chaos and stable, winter and spring. The works collected in the Journal are in a mess, the styles are distinct, but it brings a memory about the times. A people and nation endure several year's war,Generally speaking, the paper, in the view of literature, with reference to the history, using the methods of comparative analysis, combs out and analyzes the literature journal, ART TIMES which appeared in the end of 1940s. In macro-view, it analyzes and explains the ideological values and its influences, in middle-view, it compares different works, and in micro-view, it analyzes the individual works.