Spiritual Purgatory

The "May 7th" school is a concentrated study and labor school founded in China during 1968-1979.The literature of the cadre school is the abbreviation of the literature of the "May 7th" cadre school.It refers to literary works with the theme of "May 7th" as the subject matter.The research object of this paper includes the literary works that reflect the life of the cadre school created by the writers since the establishment of the "May 7th"cadre School.The "May 7th" school militarized the centralized intellectuals in order to reform their labor and ideology.The daily activities of the devolved intellectuals in the cadres' schools are mainly manual work and ideological study.Besides the work and study,there are also political criticism and political check-up movements.Strenuous physical work,frequent ideological study,harsh political criticism,and checkout exercises have had a serious impact on the body and mind of the devolved intellectuals.The emergence of dry school literature and the emergence of the school is generally synchronized.Before the end of the Cultural Revolution,the literature of the cadres' school was basically written by the cadres' school students.The main genres were poetry(especially the old style poems),prose(especially the diary,etc.),which mainly reflected the work and study life of the cadres' school.Although there are also positive attitude to school life,but more is confused,questioning.Since the reform and opening to the outside world,the writers have experienced,studied and paid close attention to the cadres' school literature.Especially those who go through the school,remember,record the special experience of the "May 7th" cadres' school.At the same time,it reflects deeply on the life of the cadres school,repents the individual performance,and shows the conscience and responsibility of the Chinese intellectuals.