The Ideas of Modern Chinese Fiction in the 1930's and 1940's

The old idea of fiction began to give way to the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat that began to dominate modern Chinese fiction from the 1930's. The left-wing fiction theorists emphasized social environment and the spirit of the times, sought to cater for the common people and gave special attention to the typical. Contrary to the mainstream theorists were those who advocated realism or “new psychological realism”. In the 1940's, some fictions were touched with war descriptions, while others were given to the portrait of the beautiful and the haven of peace. By then, therefore, different ideas of fiction welled up, progressing steadily to the height of their modern form.