By Helen F. Siu, Zelda Stern
This quantity is among the first collections to arrive the West of the tales, essays, and poems released through writers of the "Mao Generation"--the first iteration of chinese language to develop up lower than socialism. Drawn from either professional chinese language literary journals and underground magazines, those formerly untranslated tales supply a desirable portrait of China within the seventies.
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The socialist realism that was born of Mao's guidelines sings the virtues of the proletarian masses, extols the glorious changes wrought by revolution, and expresses faith in the bright future awaiting the Chinese people at the end of the socialist road. The characters of this literature tend to be class stereotypes: exemplary workers and peasants, and villainous reactionaries. Mao's last decade—1966-76— saw the most extreme application of his Yanan guidelines; writers during this period were severely restricted in their choice of subject matter and artistic treatment.
Others pulled strings if they had connections, or tried to curry favor with the few cadres who had the power to grant exit permits. Their own competitive, manipulative behavior in xxxv INTRODUCTION the scramble to get back to the cities was yet another source of disillusion. ) Even when the urban youths were allowed to return home legally, most had difficulty finding jobs in the cities, and under the new, antiexpert educational policies, those fortunate few who were allowed to go back to school received an education that did not really prepare them for technical positions.
To produce such literature under these circumstances required integrity and courage. The candor of these works affords us valuable insights, not only into this generation's turbulent coming of age, but also into socialist China's three decades of trial and error. 32 Liberal policies should not be confused with liberty however: all of the writers who published their works in official literary journals in China between 1979 and 1981 were directly or indirectly under party control. 83 All professional writers in China are paid a salary by the state.