Cultural United Front、 Knowledge Production and Field Reconstruction: XiaYan's Artistic Practice in Hong Kong during the War of Resistance againstJapanese AggressionAn investigation centered on its strategies for newspaperand periodical publishing and

Cultural United Front、 Knowledge Production and Field Reconstruction: XiaYan's Artistic Practice in Hong Kong during the War of Resistance againstJapanese AggressionAn investigation centered on its strategies for newspaperand periodical publishing and editing

WU Jingwen  SUN Yuemei

(1.School of Media Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China)

Abstract:  As a media practitioner of left-wing culture, Xia Yan, in the cross-regional literaryand artistic united front network he constructed during the full-scale War of Resistance againstJapanese Aggression, presented a special model of intellectuals' participation in ideologicalinquiries during the war. This article focuses on two crucial periods: the eve of Hong Kong'sfall in 1941 and its return to Hong Kong after the war in 1946. Through empirical examination,it examines the editorial strategies of the "Lighthouse" supplement of the Huashang Daily, thecontribution solicitation mechanism of the literature and art column of the "Masses" Weekly, aswell as the production of wartime texts such as "Spring Cold" and "Fascist Bacteria". Revealinghow Xia Yan utilized the media of newspapers and periodicals to construct a discrete culturalspace in the colonial metropolis of Hong Kong, complete the local transformation of proletarianliterary and artistic discourse, and reconstruct the aesthetic paradigm of revolutionary realismthrough the practice of reportage literature and historical drama creation.

Keywords: War period; Hong Kong cultural and artistic activities;,Xia Yan; Edit newspapersand periodicals

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