The State-System Embodiment of He Qi-fang’s Literary Thought Between 1949-1966

During the period of 1949 to 1966, the state-system factor is the dominant one in He Qifang’s spiritual personality, and this kind of personality is directly or indirectly externalized in his literary creation and literary criticism. In the new historical situation, he shouldered the sacred task to propagate Mao Zedong’s thoughts on literature and art. He Qifang’s literary study and creation, with epistemology as theoretical basis, class analysis as methodology and collectivism as values, greatly contributed to the political action of remolding intellectuals’ ideology according to Mao Zedong’s thoughts.