The Organizational Process of Literature and Art in the Soviet Areas        

Li Zhen

Abstract: From the late 1920s to the 1930s, the paradigm of literature and art in the Soviet Areas occurred and matured. The qualitative change of the Red Army literature and art from entertainment to propagation was realized through the construction of administrative agencies from the “Entertainment Department” to the “Propagation Branch”; the organization structure from the “Opera Management Committee” to the “Drama Club for Peasants and Workers” defined the rights and rules of literature and art bodies at different levels; and the activities of scrutiny, training, and literary criticism ensured the establishment and dissemination of the Red Army literary thought in the Soviet Areas. The application of those organizational means formed a new method of literary production in Chinese Soviet Areas, broadcasting the literary idea through the norm and operation of organizations, and setting up absolute authority to every detail, which determined the nature and objective of literature and art, as well as the narrative of concrete texts. That did not only determine the tendency of literature and art in the Soviet Areas, but also directly form the most important content of the Yan’an literature and art with the transfer of the Red Army, and have profound impact on China’s literary condition for decades.