Literary Dissent in Communist China

Merle Goldman

    Profiles of the Major Protagonists

    1. The Conflict Between the Party and Revolutionary Writers

    2. Literary Opposition During the Yenan Period

    3. Conflicts Between Left-Wing Writers in the KMT Area and the CCP

    4. Resumption of Thought Reform Drives in 1948

    5. Re-emergence of Literary Factions, 1949-1952

    6. The Relaxation of 1953 and the Campaign Against Feng Hsüeh-feng in 1954

    7 .The Hu Feng Campaign of 1955

    8. Writers Bloom in the Hundred Flowers Movement

    9. The Antirightist Drive Against the Writers, 1957-1958

    10. The Great Leap Forward and Ho Ch'i-fang

    11. The Significance of Literary Dissent

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Glossary

    Index

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Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.