The Literary Research Society is one of the earliest literary societies with the greatest influence and contribution in the New Literature Movement. It is composed of Zhou Zuoren, Zheng Zhenduo, Shen Yanbing, Guo Shaoyu, Zhu Xizu, Qu Shiying, Jiang Baili, Sun Fuyuan, Geng Jizhi, and Wang Tongzhao. , Ye Shaojun, Xu Dishan and other twelve people initiated it. Its purpose is to "research and introduce world literature, organize old Chinese literature, and create new literature."
The Literary Research Society is not only the earliest literary society established, but also has distinctive and outstanding characteristics in the development of genres due to its large number of members and great influence, making it the most important literary society in the New Literature Movement. The literary research association accounts for an important proportion of novel creation. Shen Yanbing and Zheng Zhenduo successively edited the "Novel Monthly". Many of the founders and participants of the Literary Research Society later became figures who made outstanding contributions to the Chinese New Literature Movement.
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In the early days of the Literary Research Association, in addition to publishing journals and editing series of books, it also organized and established a "reading club". The "Reading Club" consists of Chinese Literature Group, British Literature Group, Russian Literature Group, Japanese Literature Group (the above are grouped by country), novel group, poetry group, drama literature group, and critical literature group (the above are grouped by literary category).
It is stipulated that all members of the literary research association must join the reading club. This has played a positive role in improving members' literary literacy and creative and research levels. The Literary Research Association attaches great importance to the study and introduction of foreign literature. Their purpose is partly to introduce foreign literature and art to promote the development of China's new literature, and partly to introduce the world's modern thoughts (Mao Dun's "Responsibility and Efforts of New Literature Researchers").
They focused on translating realist masterpieces from Russia (including the later Soviet Union), France, Northern and Eastern European countries, Japan, India and other countries, and introduced Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev , Chekhov, Gorky, Maupassant, Romain Rolland, Ibsen, Sienkiewicz, Arzhibasif, Antlev, Byron, Tagore, Andersen, Bernard Shaw, Wilde and others.
The Society's journal "Novel Monthly" has published special titles such as "Russian Literature Research", "French Literature Research" and "Literature of Injured Nations", as well as "Tagore". Albums such as "Byron" and "Andersen" have made great efforts in introducing foreign progressive realist literature.