Wei Junyi and "Literature and Art Studies": Conclusion

The author is the Japanese scholar Toshiyo Nanbara, I have consulted and read a large number of domestic materials during the translation process, and when this translation is fully published, I will write a biography of Wei Junyi, so stay tuned. In addition, because Wei Junyi and the second part of "Literature and Art Study" are from "orthodox dogmatists" to "right-leaning", and the fourth part of the anti-rightist struggle and "Literature and Art Study", the platform Jun has not been approved, and the appeal has not passed, and readers with reading needs can pay attention to private messages I want to re-send materials.

Conclusion

In the struggle against the Rightists, the Writers' Association has a total of only 200 members, of which more than 50 people have been classified as Rightists, which is not counting those who are in the "stepping on the line". Of the 7 editorial board members of The Study of Literature and Art, 3 were classified as rightists. Tu Guangqun, who was in the people's literature review group at that time, once said: "In my impression, the number of people who belong to the magazines of the Writers' Association, such as "Literature and Art Daily", "People's Literature", "New Observation", etc., who are identified as rightists, accounts for 1/4 to 1/5 of the entire number of people in the unit, which far exceeds the ratio of about 5 percent that Chairman Mao said. This is probably the unit with the highest proportion of rightists in the whole country. Correspondingly, the proportion of rightists in "Literary and Art Studies" is still the smallest, and I think this is all related to Wei Junyi and Huang Qiuyun, who were high-ranking at that time. ”

Wei Junyi also wrote in the "Record of Pain": "I understand that if I push the responsibility for all the problems to Huang Qiuyun, I can reduce my punishment", but at that time, Wei Junyi's heart pain was already at the limit. Since she was young, she has been determined to participate in the revolution and change the old world, is this the result she is after? Do you want to sell your personality for the sake of Mingzhe's self-preservation? If you really want to do that, then why is it necessary to endure such humiliation yourself? Why didn't I follow my parents' advice to study in the United States and become a Chinese-American scholar? After joining the revolution, Wei Junyi was even forced to face the choice of whether to be an upright person. Compared with the sadness of her own personal fate, she is even more sad about such a "revolution". Then, while being sad and disappointed, she chose not to do such a thing that she knew how to protect herself, determined not to sell her friends even if she became guilty. Therefore, Wei Junyi defended Huang Qiuyun within her ability, because she "shielded her subordinates", and she was violently criticized by the real power faction of the Writers Association.

Wei Junyi, under the pseudonym Fang Huai, published an article entitled "Problems Caused by Angel > from < Road" in the 5th issue of "Literary and Art Studies" in 1957. This article was criticized in the editorial board of the journal "Thoroughly Correcting Our Right-Leaning Thinking" on the grounds that "because of the right-leaning tendency in literary and artistic thought, it is unreasonable to correctly judge the ideological situation of young intellectuals, and for a person who should have legitimate worries about the state of young people's thinking." The article "Problems Caused by angel > from the < Road" written by Wei Junyi, the editor-in-chief of the journal, was recorded as an article representing this kind of view, which is the first time that Fang Huai is Known to Be Wei Junyi.

In response to the concern of many comrades engaged in youth work and education about the phenomenon of many young people watching the movie "Road Angel" (1937), lest young people get contaminated with the toxins reflected in the movie, and suggested that the government should ban the release of "Road Angel", Wei Junyi expressed his opposition in the article.

Wei Junyi stated in the article that "3 years ago, even if young people only read novels depicting Soviet heroes, there were still young people who read "How Steel is Made" and were only interested in falling in love. If the young people's opinions are wrong, can they help them?"

It's not evil to be interested in kiss scenes and love songs. We Communists are not Puritans who advocate medieval asceticism. Why impose on the youth what is not in the communist moral code? Is it necessary to make them not think about the matter of love? After sealing the youth in bottles and cans, placing them in excellent works of art, they are not allowed to touch them at all. Then once the bottle is broken (it will be destroyed), the youth cannot live all his life under the cover of the conformist gentleman. After the mind is suppressed for a long time, it will flood and drown in it, and eventually it will really become obsessed with unhealthy things, so it will be out of control.

Since the implementation of the "double hundred" policy for one year, we have been discussing the issue of "what can be released and what can be sung" in the "hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending." The obstacles to "chirping" and "letting go" come from all aspects of society. Some comrades believe that young people only need to read books such as "The Story of Zoya and Shula" and "The Road of Guyali". So if they see young people enjoying "Road Angel", "Wanderer", "Adventures of Warriors", "Three Words and Two Beats", "Dream of the Red Chamber" and other different things, and even when young people are interested in "Organization Department" and "On the Cliff", they will be panicked and worried that something dirty will invade the brain of young people.

I think the above popular works are very good works, not inferior works, and they will not bring people vulgar emotions. There is no need to worry so much about the popularity of these works.

On the road of socialist construction, it is natural and that the young people who are brave enough to forge ahead are full of fighting enthusiasm, and there is nothing wrong with it. But it is impossible for these passionate new youths to live forever without sorrow, without pain, without disappointment, forever like crystal. Therefore, they cannot be separated from those kinds of works with rich feelings forever. Such emotions and passions should not occupy the center of the youth's whole day, and there is no great harm to the progress of the youth. Even if young people are temporarily completely devoid of such emotions, they will not think that such feelings of others are wrong. Aren't we going to be united? If we don't understand the hearts of others at all, who else are we to unite with?

If you want young people to have insight, you must let them see as much as possible, think more, and try to talk more, which is not a bad thing. Truth often triumphs over error. In the era when Marxism could not be openly propagated, there were also many young people who broke through the fog to explore the truth of Marxism. So why, now, when the straight road is at hand, we are worried that young people will not be able to explore the way of truth. (Overview)

In his book, Wei Junyi mentioned that 3 years ago, young people only read novels depicting Soviet heroes. At that time, just when "Literary and Art Studies" began to be published, Wei Junyi collected from contemporary literature to ancient and modern Chinese and foreign classics, and published a literary and art popularization magazine for young people. Wei Junyi initially emphasized the educational significance and social effects of literature and art, although Huang Qiuyun described her as "a complete dogmatist", but in the article "The Problems Caused by the "Road Angel"", there is no scale and half claw of dogmatism. Here, she "shouted loudly" and engaged in a heated discussion in a realistic way, and she did not suppress and deny opinions that disagreed with her own, but after thinking independently, she came to a conclusion that made people understand. This was what people at that time called Wei Junyi, who had "revisionist tendencies" and "right-leaning" ideas. At that time, when the criticism conference entered the formal discussion, Wei Junyi was criticized as a "rightist" for shielding Huang Qiuyun and Li Xinghua and other subordinates. As Huang Qiuyun said, for Wei Junyi, listening to Khrushchev's secret report gave her an opportunity to break away from the "dogmatists", and through the editor of "Literary and Art Studies", she no longer simply looked at works and lives in a one-sided way, but in the face of opposite opinions, trained her ability to think independently and distinguish between right and wrong.

Wei Junyi made the following meeting in the "Record of Pain"—in 1957, because my remarks exceeded a certain range, I was severely criticized. At this time, Yang Shu, as my husband, was very sympathetic to me, and when I was extremely distressed, he accompanied me out for a walk. But we basically didn't say anything while we were walking, and I thought to myself that we might never be able to communicate spiritually again. He feared that I would be punished, that my mind would shake the party. And I am not mainly worried about my personal affairs, I am worried that there are so many people who have the courage to speak up and are being persecuted in large numbers, what will the future of the country be reduced to? He believes that the Party's decision to launch a struggle against the Rightists should not be a wrong decision, but only a very small number of people who have not correctly grasped themselves. And I feel that none of the statements made at the critique conference were true. It's not just a matter for a very small number of people. The distance between us grew, and soon we reached a difficult situation that was difficult to heal, and even then, he was still loyal to me and tried to make me happy.

In order not to make the same mistakes, Wei Junyi, who was deeply concerned about the "revolution" and the "future of the country", pondered and discussed "the whole thing of our time, the sacrifice, the gain, and the loss", and wrote a book. The publication of these 12 books was also more than 20 years later in 1980, when she was over 60 years old.

(It's really a dream--- translator press)