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Session Submission Type: Organized Panel
This panel provides four studies on how modern Chinese reportage literature resisted and reconstructed mainstream ideologies, and functioned as national and transnational expressions. In the 1930s, reportage literature provided the left wing movement with a writing praxis to approach the mass and popularize literature. Early PRC reportage was an important constituent of socialist realism. Xiaomei Chen argues that post-Mao reportage, by its claim to historicity, achieves a "canonical status of a literary genre" and reconfigures the party-state discourse (94). The socio-political contexts of reportage, Yingjin Zhang observes, allowed reportage writers' ideological self-positioning and interventions. Modern Chinese reportage, as Charles Laughlin states, expresses a collective public consciousness through its imaginative construction. This panel analyzes the ideological undercurrents of literary reportage, and the tensions between personal narratives and official ideology, between writers’ dramatic narrative devices and textual impulse toward emotional realism. Lei Qin studies the impact of German Kischean literary reportage on 1930s Chinese left wing intellectuals' aesthetic pursuits and their exploration of the genre’s political/social function. Li Guo examines Chen Xuezhao’s Visiting Yan’An (1939) and Bai Lang’s The Fourteen of Us (1939) and discusses how war-time autobiographical reportage endow women with a new socio-political agency. Tie Xiao considers Zhu Qianzhi's memoirs as autobiographical reportage, which showed the intersection of the personal and collective and aims to report the author’s personal life to the people. Jie Guo explores Ai Wu's two "sequels" to his Journey to the South, and gender, ethnicity and subject-formation in early 1960s and the post-Mao reportage literature.
Schreib Das Auf!: Literary Reportage as Kunstform and Kampfform in the Left Wing Movement of 1930s China - Lei Qin, Washington University in St. Louis
Women's War-time Autobiographical Reportage: Chen Xuezhao’s Visiting Yan’An (1939) and Bai Lang’s The Fourteen of Us (1939) - Li Guo, Utah State University
Reporting the Self that is Ten Thousand Things: Zhu Qianzhi and His Reminiscences (1927) - Tie Xiao, Indiana University
Genre, Ethnicity, and Feminine Subjectivity: Ai Wu’s Journey to the South Sequels - Jie Guo, University of South Carolina