I Witnessed It: An Account of Literary Events -- Remembering Major Events: Remembering Major Events

Author: Mao Dun
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "New Literature Materials" has been around for a hundred issues. It was founded at the end of the Ten-Year Catastrophe, and the hardships of that time are still vividly remembered. The phrase "renewed after adversity" may carry a slightly bitter taste, but "a bright spot after a dark tunnel" has also left the editors with moments of joy. The hundred issues of "Materials" are the crystallization of the efforts of three generations of editors. Now, the editors present these three magnificent volumes to the readers. Describing it as the "essence of a hundred issues" – a collection of the highlights from the first hundred issues – and as the "selection of a hundred issues" – a testament to the painstaking effort of the editors. "New Literature Materials" has been around for a hundred issues. It was founded at the end of the Ten-Year Catastrophe, and the hardships of that time are still vividly remembered. The phrase "renewed after adversity" may carry a slightly bitter taste, but "a bright spot after a dark tunnel" has also left the editors with moments of joy. The hundred issues of "Materials" are the crystallization of the efforts of three generations of editors. Now, the editors present these three magnificent volumes to the readers. Describing it as the "essence of a hundred issues" – a collection of the highlights from the first hundred issues – and as the "selection of a hundred issues" – a testament to the painstaking effort of the editors. The entire volume collects firsthand accounts of major events in literary history by masters of the literary world: Mao Dun, Xia Yan, Hu Feng, Zheng Boqi – the rise and fall of the League of Left-Wing Writers; Ding Ling – the events before and after the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum; Huang Changyong – the events before and after the Wang Shiwei Incident; Lin Mihan – the events before and after the Hu Feng Incident.