The Social Influence of Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union

The Left-wing Writers' League guides its practice with Marxist literary theory. Lu Xun, Qu Qiubai, Feng Xuefeng and others have done a lot of translation and introduction work in propagating Marxist literary theory. From the beginning, the left-wing alliance attached importance to theoretical criticism, and its members used Marxist theory as a weapon to criticize bourgeois literary views such as "Crescent School", "Nationalist Literature Movement", "Free Man", "Third Person" and "Debate School". Criticized and struggled against the reactionary literary and artistic policies of the Kuomintang authorities. They attach great importance to the popularization of literature and art, and have published articles in Popular Literature, Pioneer, Literature Guide, Beidou, Literature, Literature Monthly and other newspapers and periodicals, and launched a heated discussion, forming a very strong literary popularization movement.

The left-wing literary movement led by the left-wing alliance has made great achievements in creation. Revolutionary writers have published a large number of works in the journals of the Left Alliance and other progressive journals, including Lu Xun's New Stories and his prose with Qu Qiubai, Mao Dun's Midnight, Lin Jiapu and Spring Silkworm, Jiang Guangci's Roaring Land, novels by Ding Ling, Zhang Tianyi and Ye Zi, plays by Tian Han, Hong Shen and Xia Yan, and poems by poets of China Poetry Society. Under the cultivation of left-wing writers, new literary figures such as Sha Ting, Ai Wu, Ye Zi, Zhou Wen, Jiang Muliang, Ai Qing, Pu Feng, Nie Gannu and Xu Maoyong have emerged. They brought many energetic works to the literary world and became an active force in the literary world in the 1930s. The great achievements in creation also lie in the emergence of many new themes and themes of great social significance. The heroic struggle of revolutionaries under the white terror and the fierce resistance of workers to capitalist exploitation have become the contents described in many works. The theme of rural life and struggle has also entered the creative vision of many writers. Many works reflect the scene of poverty and bankruptcy in rural areas with real and vivid artistic pictures, and show the awakening and struggle of farmers. In addition, the turbulent city life in 1930s was truly and intensively reflected in literary works. All these works reflect a strong and distinct color of the times.