Literary Research Association

…established the Wenxue Yanjiuhui (“Literary Research Association”), generally referred to as the “realist” or “art-for-life’s-sake” school, which assumed the editorship of the established literary magazine Xiaoshuo yuebao (Short Story Monthly). Perhaps the most important literary magazine of the early 1920s, Xiaoshuo yuebao was used by the Association to promote…

…of the founders of the Literary Research Association, which called for a reality-oriented literature. He worked as a teacher and editor and, with Zhu Ziqing, founded the monthly Shi (“Poetry”) in 1922.

…as the organ of the Literary Research Society, which was committed to social realism in literature, to the introduction of foreign literature into China, and to the creation of a new Chinese literature. Zheng was made Beijing editor of the magazine upon its reorganization in 1920, and he became chief…