Note (General)Introduction Revolution and Its Revisit The Main Questions Further Reflections Chapter 1 Intellectual Social Circles and the Gestation of the Creation Society Social Backgrounds of the Creation Society Members Chinese students' Life in Japan The KMT Exiles in the Chinese Community in Japan The Circle of Young China Association and the Establishment of the Creation Society Chapter 2 The Socio-political Context of Intellectuals' Self-Recognition Social Thinking in Taishō Japan Competition for Social and Cultural Capital in the Early Period The Tension between Intellectuals and Capital Market Assuming a Proletarian Identity Proletarian or Not? Chapter 3 "Mission of Literature" and the Political Involvement of the Creation Society "National Literature" and Its Problems Becoming Revolutionary Writers: Political Influence from the KMT Guangzhou Government Disillusioned Intellectuals after 1926 Revolutionary Literature: the Social History of a Concept "Revolutionary Literature" Under the Scope of Party Politics Chapter 4 Struggles between Two Souls: Intellectuals' Theoretical Construction of Class Transformation The Proletarian Class Consciousness "Proletarian Revolutionary Literature": A Reflexive Concept Temporality and Historiography Subjectivity The Misinterpretation and Reinterpretation of "Aufheben" The formation of "battle field of ideology" and the Practise of "Aufheben" Chapter 5 Theoretical Struggle: The Politics of Literature and Arts The Dialectics of Theory and Practise The Cultural Policy of the KMT from 1925-1931 Political Propaganda of the CCP, 1925-1930.
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references and index.