User:DyinRich/Left-Wing Writers
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The League of the Left-Wing Writers (Chinese: 中國左翼作家聯盟; pinyin: Zhōngguó Zuǒyì Zuòjiā Liánméng), commonly abbreviated as the Zuolian or Left League, was an organization of writers formed in Shanghai, China at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party and the influenced by Lu Xun. Other prominent members included Ding Ling, Hu Feng, and Mei Zhi.[1] The League's purpose was to promote socialist realism in support of the Communist Revolution, and it eventually became very influential in Chinese cultural circles.[according to whom?] Lu Xun delivered the opening address to the organizational meeting, but he became disillusioned when it quickly became clear that he would have little influence.[2] Other members included leaders of the Sun Society, Creation Quarterly, and Zhou Yang who became Mao Zedong's favorite literary figure and after 1949 zealously enforced political orthodoxy. The League articulated theories on the political role of literature that foreshadowed Mao's influential Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art, and engaged in running debates with the "art for art's sake" Crescent Moon Society.[3]
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