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Communist War Stories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Li Chi
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Modern Chinese literature, which I date from the deliberate new beginnings made at the time of the May Fourth movement, is distinguished by its conscious effort at Europeanisation, which is in itself a catchall term embracing a whole assembly of themes and techniques, images and linguistic features taken and adopted from the vast literature beyond the seas and vaguely and often incorrectly designated as European. To be European was in fact simply to be non-traditional Chinese.

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Special Survey of Chinese Communist Literature
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The China Quarterly , Volume 13 , March 1963 , pp. 139 - 157
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1963

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1 This is speaking of the situation in general in 1937. As a matter of fact, novels dealing with Japanese invasion in the north-east were written and published in the early 1930s. The most successful of this group, namely, Chun, Hsiao's Village in August (Pa-yueh te Hsiang-ts'un, 1935)Google Scholar, had a tremendous influence on later writers of war stories. However, in the autumn of 1937, when all-out war suddenly confronted the people, it caught most writers unprepared.

2 Quoted from Shou-sung, Liu, Chung-kuo Hsin Wen-hsueh Shih Ch'u-kao (Peking: Tso-chia Ch'u-pan-she, 1957), Vol. 2, pp. 12–13.Google Scholar

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7 Tzu-nan, Shao, Yen Yung-t'ang Chiu-ssu I-sheng (Shantung: Hsin-hua Book Co., 1947).Google Scholar This passage is borrowed from a play in Yuan-ch'ü Hsuan (A Selection of Yuan Drama), most likely a play by Kuan Han-ching.

8 Feng, Ma, Jung, Hsi, Lü-liang Ying-hsiung Chuan (Peking: Hsin-hua Book Co., 1952).Google Scholar

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12 Ling, Ting, Wo tsai Hsia-tsün ti Shih-hou (Peking: Jen-min Wen-hsueh Ch'u-pan-she, 1946).Google Scholar This story is also included in Yenan Chi (1954)Google Scholar in which a few added sentences depict Cheng-cheng as working against the Japanese rather more consciously.

13 Po-yü, Liu, Chan-huo fen-fei (Shanghai: Hsin-hua Book Co., 1949).Google Scholar

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19 A line in one of two poems by Mao, , People's Daily, 10 3, 1958.Google Scholar

20 Shuo, Yang, op. cit., p. 105.Google Scholar

21 Mo, Hai, op. cit., p. 189.Google Scholar

22 Shuo Yüeh ch'üan chuan, popular Ching edition of the story of the Sung General Yueh Fei.

23 Birch, Cyril, “Fiction of the Yenan Period,” The China Quarterly, No. 4, 10–12 1960, p. 11.Google Scholar

24 Yang-chia-chiang Yen-i, a story of the military careers of the Sung General Yang Yeh and his sons.