On Writer's And Works' Criticism Of Maodun After The Founding Of PRC

Maodun is a great master in the 20th century Chinese literary criticism history. After thefounding of PRC, he puts in literary criticism practice with energetic political enthusiasm andsharp artistic insight, leaves a lot of valuable theoretical wealth. Because of the change onliterary situation and Maodun's political and literary status, compared with literary criticismbefore the founding of PRC, Maodun's literary criticism after the founding of PRC changesand appears new characteristics: First, "factuality"is nucleus measure of value. Maodun notonly expounds in theory, but also expresses in writer's and works'criticism. Second, Maodunlays stress on discovering and training socialism literary new people and new works. Thrid,Maodun insists on the unity of politics and literature. Especially at that time in the wrongcriticism tendency of "politics first"even "politics only", the writer's and works'criticismbased on facts analyses and appraises works'artistic quality. It shows mature and firmprinciple as a great master of literary criticism. Forth, for meeting the readers'need, Maodundevelops "writer's and works literary form"set up by last century. Writer's and works'criticism shows popular and strict criticism form that presents new characteristics in thecriticism language, criticism type and criticism pattern of expression. Maodun contributes toflourishing socialism literature and criticism by his peculiar writers'and works'criticism.