The founding meeting of the Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance was held on March 2, 1930 at the China University of the Arts in Shanghai. Present at the meeting were Feng Naichao, Hua Han (Yang Hansheng), Gong Binglu, Meng Chao, Wan'er, Qiu Yunduo, Shen Duanxian (Xia Yan), Pan Hannian, Zhou Quanping, Hong Lingfei, Dai Pingwan, Qian Xingcun (A Ying), Lu Xun , Studio (Feng Xuefeng), Huang Su, Zheng Boqi, Tian Han, Jiang Guangci, Yu Dafu, Tao Jingsun, Li Chuli, Peng Kang, Xu Yinfu, Zhu Jingwo, Rou Shi, Lin Boxiu (Du Guoxiang), Wang Yiliu, Shen Yechen, Feng Xianzhang , Xu Xingzhi and more than 40 people. There were more than 50 initial alliance members. The congress approved the theoretical program and action program of the Left Federation, and elected Shen Duanxian, Feng Naichao, Qian Xingcun, Lu Xun, Tian Han, Zheng Boqi, and Hong Lingfei as standing committee members, and Zhou Quanping and Jiang Guangci as alternate members. Lu Xun delivered a speech at the meeting entitled "Opinions on the Left-wing Writers Alliance", emphasizing that revolutionary writers must be exposed to actual social struggles. He put forward four opinions on the work of the Left Alliance: "The struggle against the old society and the old forces must be resolute, persistent, and focused on strength"; "the front should be expanded"; "large groups of new fighters should be created"; "unity" The necessary condition for the front to be unified is that it has the same goal... If the goal is the workers and peasants, then of course the front will be unified."
As soon as the Left Alliance was established, it was immediately destroyed and suppressed by the Kuomintang government. For example, the "Left Alliance" organization was banned, members of the Left Alliance were wanted, various laws and regulations were promulgated, bookstores were closed, publications and books were banned, censorship Manuscripts, arrests and torture, secret killings of revolutionary literary and artistic workers, etc. Li Weisen (Li Qiushi, a left-wing cultural worker, not a member of the Left Alliance), Rou Shi, Hu Yepin, Yin Fu, and Feng Keng, who are often called the "Five Martyrs of the Left Alliance", were secretly murdered on February 7, 1931. At the Kuomintang Garrison Command in Longhua, Shanghai. However, the Left Alliance still fought tenaciously. In addition to the Shanghai General League, it also established the Peking Left Alliance (also known as the Northern Left Alliance), the Tokyo branch, the Tianjin branch, and regional organizations such as the Baoding group, the Guangzhou group, the Nanjing group, and the Wuhan group. . Members of the Left Alliance are not limited to cultural workers, but also include teachers, students, staff, and workers, with the total number of members reaching hundreds.
The leadership body of the Left Federation was initially the Standing Committee, and later renamed the Executive Committee (or both coexisted), with a secretariat and an administrative secretary responsible for daily work. It consists of the Organization Department, Propaganda Department, Editorial Department, Publishing Department, Creative Criticism Committee, Popular Literature and Art Committee, International Liaison Committee, etc. In addition to the standing committee members elected at the founding conference, those who served as leaders of the Left Alliance later included Mao Dun, Feng Xuefeng, Rou Shi, Ding Ling, Hu Feng, Yi Qun, Ren Baige, Xia Zhengnong, Xu Maoyong, He Jiahuai, and Lin Danqiu. wait. Within the Left League, there is the "Party League" of the Communist Party of China. Pan Hannian, Feng Naichao, Feng Xuefeng, Yang Hansheng, Ding Ling, Zhou Yang, Dai Pingwan, etc. have served as party secretary. Organizationally, the Left Federation accepts the leadership of the Cultural Work Committee of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (referred to as the "Cultural Committee").
The Left Federation established contact with the international proletarian literary and artistic movement. In November 1930, the Left Federation sent Xiao San as a representative to attend the Second International Conference of Revolutionary Writers in Kharkov, Soviet Union. The Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance joined the International League of Revolutionary Writers and became one of its branches, the Chinese branch.
The organizations and publications founded by the League of Leftists include "Grudge Monthly", "Pioneer" (the second issue was taken over), "Baldishan", "World Culture", and "Outpost" (Issue 2) It was renamed "Literary Herald"), "Beidou", "Cross Street", "Literature", "Literary Mass", "Literary Monthly", "Literary New Land", etc.; it also secretly published "Secretariat News" and "News from the Secretariat" and "News from the Secretariat" Literary Life"; and hosted "Weekly Literature" in the supplement "Qingguang" of "Jiushi Xinbao". There is also the peripheral publication "Literary News". The publications of the Peking Leftist Federation include "Literary Magazine", "Literary Monthly", etc. The Tokyo Branch Office published "Dongliu", "New Poems", and "Miscellaneous Articles" (later renamed "Zhiwen"). The publications edited by members of the Left Alliance in their own names include Unknown Literature and Art (Ye Zi, Chen Qixia), Literature and Art (Zhou Wen, Liu Dan), Chunguang (Zhuang Qidong, Chen Junzhi), and the China Daily supplement "Dongxiang" ( Nie Gannu), "Translation" (Lu Xun, later Huang Yuan), "Taibai" (Chen Wangdao), "New Novels" (Zheng Junping, also known as Zheng Boqi), etc. The Chinese Poetry Society led by the Zuo Lian published "New Poetry".