League of Left-Wing Writers

…the Zuoyi Zuojia Lianmeng (“League of Left-Wing Writers”), whose membership included many influential writers. Lu Xun, the prime organizer and titular head throughout the league’s half decade of activities, had stopped writing fiction in late 1925 and, after moving from Beijing to Shanghai in 1927, directed most of his…

…Shanghai, where he joined the League of Left-Wing Writers and became Lu Xun’s assistant. During this period he published several collections of essays, including Wenyi bitan (1936; “Essays on Literature and Art”). In 1936 he called for a “popular literature for the national revolutionary war,” a stance that sparked a…

…attention to politics, joining the League of Left-Wing Writers. Ding Ling, however, devoted herself to writing, and by 1930 she had completed three collections of short stories and a novelette. Later that year she gave birth to a son and joined the League of Left-Wing Writers. Hu Yepin joined the…