Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China

Contents
Acknowledgement
List of Tables
Introduction
	Revolution Revisited
	The Main Questions
	Further Reflections
Chapter 1 Intellectual Social Circles and the Gestation of the Creation Society
	Social Background of the Creation Society Members
	Chinese Students’ Lives in Japan
	KMT Exiles in the Chinese Community in Japan
	The Circle of Young China Association (YCA) 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
	Tension between Intellectuals and the 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 of 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 Struggle between Two Souls: Intellectuals’ Theoretical Construction of Class Transformation
	Proletarian Class Consciousness
	“Proletarian Revolutionary Literature”: A Reflexive Concept
	Temporality and Historiography
	Subjectivity
	The Misinterpretation and Reinterpretation of “Aufheben”
	The Formation of the “Battlefield 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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index