Leftist Association Organization And Dissemination Of Literature (1930-1936)

Since its establishment, Left League had undertaken the historical mission of transmitting the ideology of the Communist Party of China. The League fulfilled the task successfully under the then historical circumstances. Employing the research perspectives and strategies in the fields of mass communication and administrative management, this dissertation has explored how communication was attained both within and without Left League, a politicized literary organization, and how its literature was initiated, spread and consumed.The dissertation falls into three chapters. Introduction, first of all, presents a review of two different research modes used in studying Left League since the liberation, then justifies the employment of the research perspectives and strategies in the fields of mass communication and administrative management. The new perspectives pose a dialogic and complementary relationship with the old ones. Chapter I has sketched the structure of the League by examining the function, the tenure of the principal leaders of the various branches. This dissertation holds the belief that the League was of a linear consultative structure, which, in different periods, had its varied strengths and weaknesses. Then, the paper goes on to discuss how the internal structural flaw of the League, namely, two centers of leadership, intensified the personnel conflicts, which already existed in the League. Chapter II focuses on discussing the diffusion of Left League literature and exploring the reasons for its popularity among the youth. With the commercial potentials, while leftist literature (leftist discourse included) was utilized by capital investors to create high profits on the one hand; the leftist literary world harbored the hope that the leftist discourse was diffused through published readings and films on the other. With capital to exert an influence, Left League literature was able to spread in times of strict censorship. Left League attached great importance to its various strategies employed in spreading, which received due attention in this dissertation. Chapter III has investigated Left League's theory of readership and its inner conflicts. This paper proposes that the line of "popularization of literature and art" is the omnidirectional "proletarianization", which includes proletarianizing writers, works and readers, and the primary purpose of "popularization" is to mobilize the masses to revolt against the existing regime. Having analyzed the "popularization" theories of Qu Qiubai, Mao Dun and LuXun, the dissertation has pointed out that the chief weakness of "popularization" theory lies in the lack of concrete insight into "the masses",...