Revolutionary Journey And Literary Writing: A Study On Bai Lang

Bai Lang, a woman writer in Northeast Writers Group, had experienced rough and tortuous revolutionary life. She went through several different historical periods: Manchukuo period, Anti-Japanese War, Yan’an period, Liberation War, early years after the foundation of new China. She finally stopped writing until been involved in various political movements and suffered a lot of hardships,. Bai Lang wrote an era work with her legendary life, and portrayed her choices and perseverance during ups and downs in the era. As far as Bai Lang was concerned, revolution was the faith of her life, and it was the main cause for her to make choices on the road of her life. On the other hand, Bai Lang always consciously combined her writing with the need for revolution and the time. Her pen was not just a writing tool, but also a fighting weapon. In conclusion, Bai Lang’s literary writing is a reflection and recording of her revolutionary life. Bai Lang’s life course had both specificity and universality. The relationship between Bai Lang and the Chinese revolution is a microcosm of the relation between revolution and Chinese intellectuals. Therefore, it is worth to reveal Bai Lang’s life course, including her choices and beliefs, her revolutionary journey and literary writing, which can help us study how Chinese modern intellectuals make choices and what are their fates in the ups and downs in changing era.The paper aims to present Bai Lang’s legendary life course and to examine how revolution mingles with and effects on her life experience and literary writing in different life stages. The paper is divided into four chapters except introduction and conclusion. Chapter One studies on Bai Lang’s writing and editing events on the newspaper in the period of Manchukuo. What is most focused is Bai Lang’s editing events that are never involved in previous studies. Chapter Two studies on Bai Lang’s two different types of writing during her exile in mainland China. One type is Bai Lang’s anti-Japanese literature works that base on Bai Lang’s Manchukuo experience. The other type is Bai Lang’s autobiographical essays and novels that base on her real life experience. These two types of works constitute Bai Lang’s conflicting emotion world in this period. Chapter Three concerns about Bai Lang’s experience and writing during the early years in Yan’an which is neglected in the previous studies. Chapter Four examines Bai Lang’s ups and downs in the fifties, with a focus on Bai Lang’s complex spiritual path in her old age, showing her "revolutionary complex", and analyzing the causes of her "revolutionary complex". The final conclusion will compare Bai Lang with two other women writers Xiao Hong and Ding Ling who lived in the same era, examining their different life choices and real fates, as a way of re-examining Bai Lang’s revolutionary journey and literary writing.The paper focuses on Bai Lang’s experience and writing, combining Bai Lang’s biography, relevant information and first-hand materials, using data collecting, text reading, editions comparing and other research methods, to study on Bai Lang’s revolutionary journey and literary writing. Through the study on Bai Lang, we can show the complexity of Chinese modern intellectuals’revolutionary life, complete and improve the existing studies on Bai Lang.