The Rising Of Left-wing Discourse

The study seeks to discuss the revolutionary literature debate occurred between 1928 and 1929. The major argument is that the debate, in some extent, manages to bring all the previously introduced literature theories, concepts into the political field at that time. As a beginning, this debate actually sets up the importance of literature in the political area. This debate also brings up many important concepts and problems, which later become very effective in Chinese political sphere. With the development of this debate, more and more already-existed historical resources, overseas intellectual resources and important intelligentsias have been involved. These resources after being adopted and confirmed by the debate then truly take root in the Chinese political field and start to interact with Chinese politics.Three key facets of this research will be prominent. Firstly, by describing the historical situation around 1925 when the Great revolution was approaching its failure, I want to illustrate the problems that the revolution faces at the moment, as well as the changing of the division of left and right caused by purging Communists within Guo Mindang. I want to prove that this changing of left and right division is actually the political situation that those intelligentsias faced when they started the revolutionary literature debate. This new political environment on one side forms the necessity of those intelligentsias to find a new way to carry on the revolution, while on the other hand, it urges those intelligentsias who have left-wing incline finally recognize Chinese Communist party as a political power which has the ability and legitimacy to carry on the responsibility of Chinese revolution. Secondly, by analyzing the"revolutionary literature"concept on China Youth, the magazine ran by Chinese Communist Youth League, and the redefinition of"literature", I intend to demonstrate the motivation of combination of literary and political fields. I aim to reveal the motivation actually comes from the necessities of both sides from different perspectives. Thirdly, by using the changing of Upton Sinclair's image in Chinese literature sphere as a case study, I intend to discuss about the process of different resources being involved into the revolutionary literature debate and the expansion of left-wing discourse influence as well.As a symbolic event, the revolutionary literature debate, on one hand, connects the Marxist theory introduced into Chinese revolution in the early twentieth century, while on the other hand, it also becomes the start point of the process of Marxism becoming a discursive hegemony among Chinese revolutionary intelligentsias. By forwardly using concepts and terms of Marxism, these intellectuals who join the debate not only deepen their understanding of these concepts but also greatly help them to establish a new and unique understanding of"literature".