1, Phase I 1949- 1978

With the convening of the "First Literary Congress", the literary workers who had been separated for a long time in the two regions (the Kuomintang-ruled area and the liberated area under the leadership of the * * * production party) finally "united". The fighting tradition of the May 4th New Literature and the cultural tradition of the Liberated Areas formed in the war merged on the premise that all roads lead to the same goal. The new direction of China literature and art stipulated in Mao Zedong's Speech was formally established as the direction of national literature and art work.

At that time, people with guns engaged in peaceful construction, and cultural psychology naturally retained traces of the war era. Under the restriction of this cultural atmosphere, the literary concept has shifted from military track to political track, and the thinking mode of confrontation between the two armies is embodied in the dogmatic mode of one-sided emphasis on class struggle.

2. The second stage is 1978- 1989.

The real "revival" of literature is marked by1the "scar literature" that started in August, 978. The convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee marks the denial of the cultural norms of war that have influenced China's cultural construction for forty years since the Anti-Japanese War.

1979 1 0 in the fourth literary congress, Deng Xiaoping delivered a congratulatory message on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, clearly put forward the opinion of "non-interference", and admitted that literary and artistic creation is a complex spiritual labor. The party "does not require literature and art to be subordinate to temporary, concrete and direct political tasks, but to help literature and art according to its characteristics and development laws." ?

1980, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formally put forward the general policy of "literature and art serve the people and socialism". 1984, Hu Qili attended the fourth writers' congress on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and made a promise of "creative freedom". Literature in the 1980s is full of vigorous innovative spirit and active atmosphere. The May 4th New Literature Tradition was revived.

3. The third stage of the 1990s-the new century.

Cultural characteristics in the early 1990s: the unified political and social ideal held by intellectuals in the state of "fame and fortune" was diluted, and the multicultural pattern gradually formed unconsciously. In literary creation, writers abandon grand historical narrative and turn to personal narrative position, especially rediscovering and actively identifying with folk position. The new literary tradition showed new vitality in the 1990s.

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Some representatives of contemporary literature:

Wang Meng (1934-) is a contemporary writer from Beijing. His first novel is Long Live Youth. His short story "A Young Man Came from the Organization Department" has a great influence, and more than 30 works have been published from 1976- 198 1. Among them, The Most Precious, The Heart of an Inch of Grass and sound of spring won the National Excellent Short Story Awards of 1978, 1979 and 1980 respectively. The novella Butterfly won the national excellent novella award.

Zhang Xianliang is a famous contemporary writer. His masterpieces include Half a Man is a Woman and Greening Trees.

Liu Shaotang (1936- 1997), a contemporary writer, was born in Tongxian County, Beijing. He started writing at the age of thirteen, and published his first short story "Green Branches and Leaves" at the age of seventeen. After 1979, the novella Liu Servant's Home and the short story Emei won the national novella award and short story award respectively.

Modern female writer Ru Zhijuan (1925-) used to be named Aru and Chuxu. Her ancestral home is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and she was born in Shanghai. His representative works include the short stories Lily, Quiet Maternity Hospital and Miscellaneous Stories, among which Miscellaneous Stories won the National Excellent Short Story Award 1979.

Lee Joon (1928-2000), a modern writer, was born in Mengjin, Henan. Representative works include the short story Biography of Li Shuangshuang; The screenplays adapted by him include Garland under the Mountain, Shepherd, New Biography of Veterans and so on. Among them, Biography of the Veteran won the silver prize of 1959 Moscow International Film Festival.

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