ABSTRACT
Chinese left-wing literature emerged in the late 1920s when the literary theories and associations that had flourished during the first decades of the 20th century received a political boost following the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and the radicalization of the historical context. Both realism and romanticism – the main literary trends that had contributed to the birth of the New Literature – were a fertile platform for the development of a socially engaged view of literature. Inspired by this view of literature, a group of talented left-wing writers appeared on the literary scene, among whom the prominent ones include Jiang Guangci, Rou Shi, Ye Zi, Zhang Tianyi, Sha Ting, Xiao Hong, and Xiao Jun.
