Ding Ling In Yan'an

Ding Ling, a famous female city writer, who ever caused a sensation in the literary circles with her Miss Sophie's Diary, went through great pains to reach Yan'an. Then she realized the change from city leftist literary organization to rural revolutionary organization and was directly led by the latter one. She devoted herself to fighting with the facts with enthusiasm. She kept observing the social facts with subject awareness, recollected and promoted herself. In the changing historic reality, she tried to keep as an open subject.When she went deep among such common people as workers, peasants and soldiers to work and live, Ding Ling felt unsuitable. The subject was placed in a passive and obedient position in this organization and the traditional rural values existing in and out of the organization made the subject face a more complicated situation. All this challenged Ding Ling who stride forward the public revolution. In the increasing mature political system, though she reached assent with the revolutionary regime, Ding Ling felt the space of subject became narrower and narrower in her pursuit for popularization of the subject. As for the judge on specific revolutionary practices, a gap began to appear between her own experience and revolutionary theory in Ding Ling's works. This gap made the subject full of vitality useless. The new subject which just appeared soon vanished.