Song of Youth is the first excellent novel in the history of contemporary literature that describes the student movement and shapes the image of revolutionary intellectuals. The author Yang Mo was born in a declining bureaucratic landlord family in Beijing. He once taught in Dingxian County, Hebei Province, and later worked as a tutor and bookstore clerk in Beijing. During this period, he contacted Marxism-Leninism and joined the * * * Production Party. This personal life experience has a great influence on her novel creation. Song of Youth, with the historical period from September 18th to December 9th as the background and the student movement as the main line, successfully shaped the typical image of Lin Daojing, a revolutionary youth who woke up and grew up in 1930s.
Theme: Song of Youth is undoubtedly a "model" in expressing the emotional way and political consciousness of revolutionary youth. Lin Daojing has indeed become an example for the modern generation and even generations of revolutionary youth in China. Because of its mode, this work contains the emotional (erotic) discourse of revolutionary literature and art, especially the whole operating mechanism of female emotional (erotic) discourse, and even the basic rules of revolutionary aesthetics, that is, the production secrets of revolutionary "propaganda industry" (mainly literature and art).