Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2019

 

Breakthrough and Reconstruction of the Literary Theoretical Discourse in the Economic Transitional Period

(Abstract)

 

Li Shengchuan

 

The political regulation of literature had been loosened in the economic transitional period in the early 1960s. The leaders of central committee represented by Zhou Enlai had made a series of talks on the questions of developing directions, for whom literature should serve, the relation between literature and politics, the peculiar regularity of literature and art, ways of leadership on literature. It created the healthy political environment for improving leadership of literature, respecting the peculiarity of literary creation, and free speech of writers, etc.. It also provided the political guard and historical possibility for Zhou Yang’s working team on compilation and publication of college textbooks. The split with China-USSR alliance had urged China to the way of “self-determination and self-reliance” during the economic transitional period. It also contributed to the breakthrough of “soviet model” of literary theoretical constructions with the anti-dogmatic and anti-exemplar endeavor, and explored the Chinese literary theoretical system out of the historical experience of China.