The Chinese Left-wing Writers' League And The Reportorial Literature In The 1930s In China

Left-wing Writers' League sets the social practice as a yardstick ofits literary and artistic advocacy and real creation concerning reportorialliterature, which is rich in ideas and thoughts. The reportorial literaturehas not been reduced to a chorological and regional concept of literature,such as to revolutions, wars and so on, nor has it been confined to certainworks, characters, events, or plots. It is more of a concept of noblethoughts that are tightly linked to it. It carries the ordeals of the Chinesenation, and bursts with passion of life, thus bringing home to us the pulseof the times and the ideological changes of that era: under the advocacyof the Left-wing Writers' League and through its practice, the reportorialliterature in its creations met the demand of the revolutionary wars intime, faithful revealed the truth about the violent social and historicalrevolutions and the mighty and magnificent struggles, and recorded withimpassioned and exciting words the history of the Chinese nation'spowerful War of Resistance Against Japan and the national anti-feudalrevolution; its theoretical research created and explained the three textualtheories of concept-introducing, frame-defining, and theme-explainingone by one, expressed its original form and essential values, initiated itsform of languages and defined its boundary of expressions, and pushedforward its future development. Therefore, from the angle of the historyof the reportorial literature's development, the Left-wing Writers' Leaguefunctions as a forerunner.This thesis, with reportorial literature and the Left-wing Writers'League in the 1930s as its subjects, conforms to the following threeprinciples when selecting and analyzing the materials: the authors ofreportorial literature were once members of the Left-wing Writers'League; the content of reportorial literature and the way in which it iscreated responded positively to the literary advocacy proposed by theLeft-wing Writers' League concerning reportorial literature; the works of reportorial literature reflected and to some extent stood for the charactersof the times in which the Left-wing Writers' League existed. The thesisconsists of three parts: the introduction, the body and the conclusion. Inthe introduction, the author draws an outline of the development of thereportorial literature in its bud and introduces the present academicsituation and the criteria of the author's choice of the subject. In the body,by answering the three questions of "why did the Left-wing Writers'League advocate reportorial literature, what kind of reportorial literaturehas the Left-wing Writers' League composed and what are our points ofview towards the Left-wing Writers' League and reportorial literature",the author carries out the argument in four parts either from the viewpointof history or through argumentation: first, the thesis uncovers one by onethe historical motives of the Left-wing Writers' League's advocacy ofreportorial literature; second, the author draws an outline of the changesof the creations of reportorial literature and explores the gradualformation of its stylistic key elements; third, the author works out andanalyzes the Left-wing Writers' League's exploration on reportorialliterature's stylistic characteristics during the "pioneering stage" of theresearch's on reportorial literature in our country; finally, from theperspective of literary criticism, the author reflects on and remarks on thestylistic viewpoints, integral creation, and the relationship between theworks and politics, and probes into its main elements, stylistic spirit andartistic expression from the establishment of its typical textualcharacteristics. In the conclusion, the author summarizes and concludesthe contribution and historical significance of the Left-wing Writers'League to the development of the reportorial literature in the 1930s inChina.