Mao Zedong's Literary and Cultural Thoughts in Earlier Stages
As the core component of China's dominant ideology,Mao Zedong's cultural thoughts had experienced a process of formation and development.In the early years,in writings for"Founding Declaration of Xiangjiang Review(also known as The Shian Kian Weekly Review)","The Origin of the Cultural Book Society",and later in the"Report on an In-vestigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan",Mao Zedong vigorously promoted the New Culture Movement,with sci-ence,philosophy,and literature as its backbone.This can be regarded as the formative period of Mao Zedong's cultural thoughts.The most typical form of Mao Zedong's cultural thoughts is the"Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art"published in May 1942,which emphasized the issue of the proletarian position,called on literary and artistic workers to serve the broadest masses of the people,and adhered to the criticism standard of"politics first and art second".This had a somewhat controversial and overwhelming impact on the development of Marxist ideology in China.Mao Zedong final-ly set up a model of the perfect combination of political and artistic standards in Lu Xun's model.
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