Volume 13, Number 7 · October 23, 1969
Mao and the Writers
By Martin Bernal
Literary Dissent in Communist China
by Merle Goldman
Harvard East Asian Series, 343 pp., $7.95
The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China
by Tsi-an Hsia
University of Washington Press, 266 pp., $7.95
Literary Doctrine in China and Soviet Influence 1956-1960
by D.N. Fokkema
Humanities Press, 296 pp., $11.50
Pa Chin and His Writings: Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions
by Olga Lang
Harvard, 402 pp., $7.95
The Hundred Flowers Praeger ($6.75) under the title, The Hundred Flower Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. It is now out of print)
by Roderick MacFarquhar
Atlantic Books, 324 pp., 50/(the Hundred Flowers was published in America in 1960 by
By the 1930s the intolerable quality of life and the inefficiency, corruption, and conservatism of the Kuomintang had driven nearly every serious creative writer in China to the Left. Most turned toward some form of Marxism, which not only offered the most convincing explanation of the appalling international and internal situation of China but also seemed to provide the best way of escape from it. But a common hostility to the Government and a common desire to build a new, strong, and just China did not impose any unity on the left-wing literary scene.
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