A Research On Luxun's Periodical Editing Orientation

In the history of the Chinese contemporary literature, Luxun is a great literary master. Yet, his career as a novelist didn' t last as long as that in being a translator, an essayist, an editor and a periodic founder. It ran through all his life and was considered his major contributions to the Chinese literature. To him, editing was not a pure skill but a creative work embodying his literary thoughts and his spirit power. Owing to its unique effects on the dissemination of the sense of value, spreading knowledge, leading readers, cultivating young authors, Luxun was closely related to periodicals all his life. He considered it the best way to enlighten people's thoughts, train new literary and art workers, motivate the development of new literature and art in China. He devoted the most part of his later life to the periodical edition, and in person established and edited dozens of periodicals which, with their unique charm, produced important effects on the readers. After years of practice, he had acquired rich experiences in editing periodicals, profound perception of binding and lay out, and then developed systematic editing thoughts which greatly inspired today's practice with practical and immediate significance. This paper tends to make a systematic survey of his editing conception based on previous researches. It is roughly divided into 5 parts:I. Luxun's achievements in periodical editing: From the 1920's to the 1930's, Luxun founded and edited dozens of periodicals as ....." torrent".... Among them some centered upon essays and particals,II. Luxun's emphasis on its social dissemination, bringing its militancy into full play. The essay, based on hosts of historical facts, displays:1. Lu's clear purpose of pressing close to and giving expression to social reality in the way of running the periodicals.2. planning the periodicals to meet the need of the readers as well as the development of social culture.3. one of the striking characteristics of Lu's editing thoughts, that is, laying special emphasis on its social dissemination, bringing its militancy into full play.III. Luxun's efforts to make periodicals a base of training new literary and art workers. In his opinion, it's an important function and one of the responsibilities of periodical editing to train new writers. He paid special respect to them, fully tapped their individualities, propped up large numbers of young writers to make his periodicals novel in style, rich in contents, and unique in character.IV. Luxun's pursue in aesthetics Lu's very serious in periodical editing exquisite in every possible detail from content to form, making every issue a harmonious creation of art.V. Influence and immediate significance of Lu's editing thought and practice. This is the concluding part of the essay. It sums up Luxun's successful experiences in periodical editing, and its main unique characteristics. His emphasis on social effects, his conscientious attitude, his creative editing style and his contribution to periodical bounding and designing will be of great significance...