丁玲과 『文藝報』 ― 1950년대 중국의 문학과 정치

Abstract

The article is part of an attempt to take a step closer to understanding the distinct characteristics of China's socialist literary field in the 1950s through consideration of several issues between writer Dingling and the editorial activities of the ‘Wenyibao'. The 1950s is a kind of transitional period in which Chinese revolutionary literature, which has developed in various forms since May 4th, has been institutionalized as official socialist literature. Therefore, in the 1950s, the Chinese literary field has complicated and transitional characteristics, with various literary ideas and practices of before 1949 mixed with the institutionalization demands of socialist literature after 1949. This transitional confusion has also affected the literature and life of a few revolutionary writers, with the case of Dingling being very remarkable. Dingling ends up being branded as a rightist writer due to a series of political events related to the editing activities of the ‘Wenyibao', one of China's key literary journals in the 1950s. The case of Dingling epitomizes the process and cause in which the literary and political views of revolutionary writers nurtured by the Chinese revolution conflict with the institutionalization process of socialist literature. In the course of the research, I particularly noted the uniqueness of the political view and literary view of Dingling. Based on this criticism, I wanted to reveal some problems in the history of contemporary literature written after ‘The Reform and Opening'.