"Popular Literature And Art Series" Research

In the late 1940s,in Hongkong which is located on the edge but has speaking space,some left-wing intellectuals from shanghai publish The Public Literature Collection which has distinctive style.It constructs the legitimacy of the public literature and art by criticizing different types,and profoundly affects personnel arrangements and those important report discourse during The first national representative conference of literary and art workers.The similar discourse mode is also found in the following critique of Xiao yemu and his works.The first chapter discusses the necessity and rationality of the special collection from time and space.The communist party will soon win this war with Kumintang,the new state regime will be founded,so the public literature and art is asked to strengthen culture front and cultural leadership conversely.Meanwhile,the cultural space is gradually reduced and political pressure is more serious in shanghai.The new situation required that propaganda front transferred to hongkong and published a distinctive collection.The second chapter pays attention to a series of criticism and construction on this collection.Some intellectuals like Shen congwen claim that literature should be free and independent,newspapers and periodicals should supervise and criticize the government.But it is considered to a utopian fantasy that is divorce from reality.The left-wing intellectuals hold that the nation needs unity,and if they are different from us,they are reactionary.Even though they hold same political stand,literary practice also has to be consistent.It means that the interpretation from Yan'an intellectuals is the only and authoritative one.The subjectivism of Hu feng is a kind of distortion and needs to be corrected in case that thought confusion.On the same time,its cohesion and centripetal force have to be strengthened.The Public Literature Collection presented the road of Lu xun and its important significance,and redefined the image of Zhu ziqing.It provided the important example for young intellectuals.The third chapter investigates the important effect for contemporary literary system when The Public Literature Collection stopped publication.The critical standard and discourse mode was handed down.The former reflected in the first national representative conference of literary and art workers,the later was applied in conference reports and the following critical activities.Those familiar concepts,words and expressions were developed in the above critical activities.