Politics of Art

The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28177-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yin, Zhiguang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables
Acknowledgement

Introduction
Revolution and Its Revisit
The Main Questions
Further Reflections

Chapter 1
Intellectual Social Circles and the Gestation of the Creation Society
Social Backgrounds of the Creation Society Members
Chinese students’ Life in Japan
The KMT Exiles in the Chinese Community in Japan
The Circle of Young China Association and the Establishment of the Creation Society

Chapter 2
The Socio-political Context of Intellectuals’ Self-Recognition
Social Thinking in Taisho Japan
Competition for Social and Cultural Capital in the Early Period
The Tension between Intellectuals and 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 from 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
Struggles between Two Souls: Intellectuals’ Theoretical Construction of Class Transformation
The Proletarian Class Consciousness
“Proletarian Revolutionary Literature”: A Reflexive Concept
Temporality and Historiography
Subjectivity
The Misinterpretation and Reinterpretation of “Aufheben”
The formation of “battle field 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

Über Autor(innen)

Zhiguang Yin received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 2011. He is Lecturer of Chinese Studies at the University of Exeter and a former Assistant Professor at Zayed University in the UAE. He has published many articles in the field of international history, Sino-Middle Eastern Relations, and modern Chinese intellectual history.