Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (Ideas, History, and Modern China)

In Politics of Art Zhiguang Yin investigates members of the Creation Society and their social network while in Japan. The study contextualises the Chinese left-wing intellectual movements and their political engagements in relation with the early 20th century international political events and trends in both East Asia and Europe. The Creation Society was largely viewed as a subject of literary studies. This research, however, evaluates these intellectuals in the context of Chinese revolution and elaborates their theoretical contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's practice of "theoretical struggle" as a main driving force of ideological construction. As this study tries to demonstrate, theoretical struggle drives the ideological politics forward while maintaining its political vigour.-- Provided by Publisher Contents Acknowledgement List of Tables Introduction Revolution Revisited The Main Questions Further Reflections Chapter 1 Intellectual Social Circles and the Gestation of the Creation Society Social Background of the Creation Society Members Chinese Students’ Lives in Japan KMT Exiles in the Chinese Community in Japan The Circle of Young China Association (YCA) and the Establishment of the Creation Society Chapter 2 The Socio-political Context of Intellectuals’ Self-Recognition Social Thinking in Taishō Japan Competition for Social and Cultural Capital in the Early Period Tension between Intellectuals and the Capital Market Assuming a Proletarian Identity Proletarian or Not? Chapter 3 “Mission of Literature” and the Political Involvement of the Creation Society “National Literature” and Its Problems Becoming Revolutionary Writers: Political Influence of the KMT Guangzhou Government Disillusioned Intellectuals after 1926 Revolutionary Literature: The Social History of a Concept “Revolutionary Literature” under the Scope of Party Politics Chapter 4 Struggle between Two Souls: Intellectuals’ Theoretical Construction of Class Transformation Proletarian Class Consciousness “Proletarian Revolutionary Literature”: A Reflexive Concept Temporality and Historiography Subjectivity The Misinterpretation and Reinterpretation of “Aufheben” The Formation of the “Battlefield of Ideology” and the Practise of “Aufheben” Chapter 5 Theoretical Struggle: The Politics of Literature and Arts The Dialectics of Theory and Practise The Cultural Policy of the KMT from 1925–1931 Political Propaganda of the CCP, 1925–1930 Conclusion Bibliography Index In 'Politics of art' Zhiguang Yin investigates members of the Creation Society and their social network while in Japan. The study contextualises the Chinese left-wing intellectual movements and their political engagements in relations with the early 20th century international political events and trends in both East Asia and Europe.00The Creation Society was largely viewed as a subject of literary studies. This research, however, evaluates these intellectuals in the context of Chinese revolution and elaborates their theoretical contribution to the Chinese Communist Party#x92;s practice of #x93;theoretical struggle#x94; as a main driving force of ideological construction. As this study tries to demonstrate, theoretical struggle drives the ideological politics forward while maintaining its political vigour In 'Politics of art' Zhiguang Yin investigates members of the Creation Society and their social network while in Japan. The study contextualises the Chinese left-wing intellectual movements and their political engagements in relations with the early 20th century international political events and trends in both East Asia and Europe. The Creation Society was largely viewed as a subject of literary studies. This research, however, evaluates these intellectuals in the context of Chinese revolution and elaborates their theoretical contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's practice of "theoretical struggle" as a main driving force of ideological construction. As this study tries to demonstrate, theoretical struggle drives the ideological politics forward while maintaining its political vigour In Politics of Art Zhiguang Yin investigates the political engagement and theoretical construction to ideological politics of the intellectuals from Creation Society in the1920s