王瑤와 그의 『中國新文學史稿』

Abstract

The writing and lecturing about the Chinese history of modern literature after the year 1949 was dedicated to rebuilding the state regime. The objective was to legitimize the Chinese Revolution through writing about the Chinese history of modern literature and the strenuous way that the People's Republic of China was achieved. The education of literature actively took part in these activities. "The Chinese History of New Literature" was the first textbook to be published, according to the provision of a basic subject for Chinese literature in university. This was a history of literature, based upon the ideological guidance of Mao Zedong, such as "The Theory of New Democracy". It was, however, criticized as having disregarded the struggle between two ideological lines of the Chinese modern literature; that is, the proletariat's and the bourgeoisie's, during the period of Great Leap in 1958. Then, Wang Yao published a self-critical writing that criticized his own bourgeois tendency. In my thesis, I'd like to examine the ideological character that represents the modern literature of China and its history through the argument of the era, the compromise between literature historians and principles of literature criticism, the contradiction and conflict.