중국공산당 100년과 중국 근현대문학 — 선전선동의 도구에서 개조와 검열의 대상으로

Abstract

Since its foundation, the Communist Party of China has focused its efforts on promoting literature through the pro-literature movement so that the subaltern people can be the main agents of literary creation and appreciation. The Communist Party of China demanded that literature be an agitation-propaganda tool for the “New Democratic Revolution” before the founding of the People's Republic of China, led literature by the policy after its founding, and controlled by censorship after its reform and opening. Agitation-propaganda theory was promoted through the Revolutionary Literature Debate in 1927, followed by the Left-wing Writers' Union in the 1930s and the Chinese National Association of Literature and Antiquities in the 1940s, and was standardized as the “People's Literature” in Yan’an. Since national foundation, “People's Literature” has been implemented as a policy through the “National Congress of Literature and Arts of China.” In the early days of reform and opening, the phase of liberation of thought was temporarily faced, but after the suppression of the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, censorship has been strengthened. In this article, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party, I would like to examine several points about how the Communist Party's literary policy was reflected and influenced literary creation and research.