Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931–1938)

206 Pages·2018·2.4 MB·English

by  Sunny Han Han (auth.)

Sunny Han Han
Literature Journals in
the War of Resistance
against Japanese
Aggression in China
(1931–1938)
Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against
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Japanese Aggression in China (1931 1938)
Sunny Han Han
Literature Journals in the War
of Resistance against
Japanese Aggression
–
in China (1931 1938)
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SunnyHan Han
Institute of Cultural Industries
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen,Guangdong
China
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Acknowledgements
I would first like to thank my editors, Miss Leana Li, Miss Divya Prabha. K and
Miss Fiona Wu. It has been a pleasure to work with them. They kindly took the
time to make possible the production of this book.
VeryhelpfuladviceregardingthisbookwasgivenbyArifDirlik,HupingLing,
Chin-Chuan Lee, Henry Yiheng Zhao, Chen Zishan, Wu Xiuming, Yang Lianfen,
David Der-wei Wang, Zhang Longxi, Kang-I Sun Chang, Nicole Xincun Huang,
Liu Jianmei, Luo Liang, Gu Hailiang, Liu Zaifu, Carlos Rojas, Chen Sihe, Chen
Xiaoming, Weili Yeh, Christopher Lupke, Kwong Ho Yee Connie and Fan Xing;
Professor Fan was my doctoral dissertation advisor in Wuhan University and gave
muchhelpforthisstudy.WithoutthegenerousresearchsupportofthePost-Funded
Projects of China National Social Science Foundation and Shenzhen University
Top-University Construction Foundation, this book could not have been started.
IheldavisitingprofessorshipintheDepartmentofAsianStudiesoftheUniversity
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. This considerably assisted the book’s
development.IwouldliketothankRobinVisserandGangYuefortheirinvitation.
ShenzhenUniversityhasgivenmeconsiderableinstitutionalsupportasfull-time
researcherpositionattheInstituteofCulturalIndustries.Igiveparticularthanksto
Dean Li Fengliang and Prof. Zhou Jianxin.
For warm collegiality and stimulating exchange, I am grateful to the Chinese
Academy of Sciences. They awarded me the 2013–2016 postdoctoral research
fellowship that enabled me to finish the book manuscript. Wang Yangzong, Yuan
Ping, Zhang Baichun and Zhang Zonghe helped to make these years memorable.
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Many thanks to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, the
Harvard–Yenching Library and The Second Historical Archives of China. They
provided important research materials and data for my research.
Some special thanks go to my family members. I thank my parents Han E’hui
andLiuYumeiandmygrandmother,WangYicai,whowasasoldieroftheChinese
ArmyduringWWII.IwouldalsoliketothankmywifeZhangXuanandmylovely
daughter Shavian Shiyuan Han.
To who love me, I dedicate this book in token of gratitude.
Sunny Han Han
Endorsement
“Thegroundcoveredinthisvolumehasbeenstudiedextensivelyingeneralsurveys
as well as studies of individual authors. Sunny Han Han’s contribution is to focus
on four periodicals to offer a closer delineation of the relationship of alternative
currents in resistance literature to political affiliation and ideological orientation.
The author concludes with the provocative thesis that there was a progression in
literature of the Nanjing Decade from an emphasis on class struggle to national
salvation to a humanism that transcended these differences.”
—Arif Dirlik, author of “Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China:
The Perspective of Global Modernity”
“Thisisanexcellentbookforexplainingsocialthoughtsattheprimarystageofthe
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, not only including modern
Chinese journalism history, but also an incisive summary of political, philosophy,
humanities in modern China.”
—Huping Ling,
Professor of Truman State University
“This book analyzes the contradictions between different Chinese social powers
such as the Right, the Left and different factions in the Left forces in the primary
stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, sharing new per-
spectives and well-founded evidence. It also explains, directly and indirectly, the
complexrelationsbetween differentnations, states andclasses, enrichingthebody
of literature on the history of Chinese journalism.”
—Chin-Chuan Lee,
Professor of City University of Hongkong
“Dr. Sunny Han Han has done magnificent work in teasing out the intertextual
threads of literary journals during the Second Sino-Japanese war. He looks into
sources drawn from various camps and areas, identifies ideological and affective
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contestations, debates theoretical agendas, and ponders the consequences of lit-
erature as a unique manifestation of wartime engagements. Both historically
informed and methodologically engaged, Han’s book is a most important source
foranyoneinterestedintheculturalandpoliticaldynamicsofmodernChinainan
extraordinary time.”
—David Der-wei Wang,
Professor of Harvard University
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Brief Account of Social Thought in China in the Primary Stage
of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Overview of the Characteristics of Early Resistance Against
Japanese Aggression: Journal Patterns
and the Relationship with Social Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2 The “Third Party” and Jie Xi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1 Three Zhang Zipings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.2 “Scream Poem” as Discourse Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.3 Evaporation of “Popular Literature and Art” Ideal . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.4 Experiences and Lessons Learned from Jie Xi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3 “Left-Wing” Politics and Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.1 “Ignored” Nightingale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.2 Literary and Theoretical Value of Articles Published in
Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
3.3 Nightingale and the Controversy Between
the “Two Slogans” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
3.4 Historical Value of Nightingale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
4 The Official Ideology and Yue Feng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
4.1 “Zhejiang-Oriented” and “Thriving of the Quintessence
of Chinese Culture” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
4.2 Using the Past to Satirize the Present: Reve-Nationalism,
National Calamity and Salvation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
4.3 Position of Yue Feng in the Literary, Social and Academic
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
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5 Humanitarian Literature Journals and Scream (Beacon) . . . . . . . . . 139
5.1 A Real Scream (Beacon). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.2 “Author Groups of Scream (Beacon)” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
5.3 Features of Articles Published by Scream (Beacon) . . . . . . . . . . . 150
5.4 About the Historical Position of Scream (Beacon) . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6 Conclusion: Supra Class, National Salvation and Humanism . . . . . . 163
6.1 Beyond “Class Character”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
6.2 Substantial Change: From “National Salvation”
to “Humanism” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
6.3 Discourse Power Writing Paradigm in the Context
of War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Epilogue: After the year 1938 ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 187
Author Index.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 191