A Study On The Mass Publication Practice Of The Stories(1963-1966)

The Stories for rural was founded in July 1963,and was suspended in May 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution.During this period,a total of 24 volumes were issued,with an average circulation of about 300,000 copies per issue.The phenomenon of hot issue is backed by the socialist cultural and political practices.The Stories(1963-1966)is regarded as the appendages of socialist education movement in the framework of enlightenment modernity of the past,therefore the judge of the political overwhelming professional "enlightenment" discourse directly cut off the possibility that the richness of the publishing practice of the Stories can be explored.So,the close and complex relationship between the publishing practice of the Stories and the socialist cultural and political practices at that time has been obscured and become a blank in the research.As the limits of "enlightenment" discourse--the inability to effectively explain the literary publishing of the Yan 'an period under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the publishing of contemporary literature(usually referred to as the literature of the 1950 s to the 1970s)--continue to emerge,the study of the history of literary publishing increasingly focuses on activating the semantic analysis power of "politics".Following this historical standpoint of "political publishing",this study attempts to explore how the Stories of the1960 s were published,what are the characteristics of this publishing practice,and what is the relationship between this publishing practice and the socialist cultural and political practices.This paper,based on the collection and textual research of relevant historical materials,demonstrates the mass publishing practice of the Stories(1963-1966)by taking"massity"(???)as the key word and referring to the concept of"mass participation"(????)and"representing the masses"(????).To be specific,this paper first analyzes the origin background of the founding of the Stories in the 1960s.Secondly,from the Angle of editing and creation,with the concept of"oral publishing house"as the core,the author investigates the editing style of the Stories(1963-1966)which adheres to the mass line(????).Thirdly,from the perspective of printing and distribution,it explains how the distribution and sales process of the Stories(1963-1966)fit into the idea of"culture going to the countryside"in the book distribution work at that time.Finally,from the perspective of the social effect of publication,this paper explores how the text of the Stories(1963-1966)constructs"group scenes"in the process of oral communication,and further reveals the social mobilization effect produced by the Stories(1963-1966).Therefore,through the investigation of the whole publishing process and social acceptance of the Stories(1963-1966),the characteristics of its mass publishing practice naturally emerged from the historical surface.The mass publishing practice also points to the mass picture of social mobilization with the purpose of stimulating subjectivity in the socialist cultural and political practices in the 1960 s.To some extent,the mass publishing practice of the Stories in the 1960 s embodies the publishing and communication with Chinese characteristics.