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Zhou Yang or Chou Yang (November 7, 1908 – July 31, 1989), courtesy name Qiying (起应), was a Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist thinker, active from the founding of the League of the Left-Wing Writers in 1930.
Zhou Yang (born November 7, 1908, Yiyang, Hunan province, China—died July 31, 1989, Beijing) was a Chinese literary critic and theorist who introduced Marxist theories of literature to China. Zhou joined the Chinese Communist Party soon after the failure of the revolution in 1927.
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Oct 26, 2021 · Zhou Yang (1908-1989), pen name Zhou Qiying and Yunyi, a native of Yiyang, Hunan, was a Marxist literary and art theorist. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. Graduated in 1928...
- Non-Fascist, Or Maoist Life
- Rendering ‘Life’
- Life After Socialism
‘The life of the people is always a mine of the raw materials for literature and art, materials in their natural form, materials that are crude, but most vital, rich, and fundamental’ asserted Mao in his famous Yan’an Talks in 1942. These Talks were to provide the basis for cultural policy for the remainder of the socialist period, and yet their de...
The problem of language and conceptual precision that confronted Zhou Yang was that of how to render ‘life’ in such a way that it would come to articulate the problem of social relations and the transformation of the writing subject, being, therefore, adequate to the rich theoretical position of such a concept in Chernyshevsky’s account. The salien...
The theoretical demand that writers enter life was soon institutionalised under the People’s Republic via the ongoing dispatch of writers to live amongst the masses, signified by the terms ‘experiencing life’ (体验生活) and ‘entering into life’ (深入生活). The contours of ‘life’, and the conditions under which life would remain the basis of literary creati...
Oct 3, 2022 · Abstract. Before his complex involvement in the events of the Cultural Revolution, Yao Wenyuan emerged as a central figure in wide-ranging theoretical debates around questions of beauty under the aegis of the Aesthetics Debate of the 1950s and ’60s.
Aug 2, 1989 · Zhou Yang, 81, one of the Chinese Communist Party's leading literary arbiters for nearly 60 years and most recently a champion of artistic freedom.
Such an emphasis on literature’s social act is more evident in the Marxist literary criticism voiced by Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白, Zhou Yang 周扬 and Hu Feng 胡风. Except for producing a positive role in cultural interference and social act, modern Chinese literary theory works for the construction of anesthetic
