Criticism of the Intermediate Person Theory

Japanese: 中間人物論批判 - ちゅうかんじんぶつろんひはん

In August 1962, the China Writers Association held a "Rural Themed Short Story Discussion" in Dalian, attended by 17 leading writers and critics in the literary world, including Zhou Yang, Mao Dun, and Zhao Shuli. The event was moderated by Shao Tsuenlin (1906-71), vice-chairman of the Writers Association and party secretary at the time. Based on the theory of realism, he advocated diversification of themes and creative methods, and opposed the subjective creative tendency, conceptualization, and formulaicization of works that had existed since the Great Leap Forward (1958). At the event, Shao Tsuenlin quoted Mao Dun's statement that "both ends are small, and the middle is big," and proposed to realistically portray the image of peasants who are in the middle and are filled with contradictions.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1962年8月，中国作家協会は大連で〈農村を題材とする短編小説座談会〉を開催，周揚，茅盾（ぼうじゆん），趙樹理ら文芸界の指導的な作家，評論家17名が参加した。当時，作家協会副主席で党組書記の邵荃麟（しようせんりん）(1906‐71)が会を司会したが，彼はリアリズム論に立脚して題材と創作方法の多様化を主張し，大躍進運動(1958)以来の主観主義的な創作傾向，作品の概念化，公式化に反対した。このとき邵荃麟は〈両端は小さく，中間は大きい〉という茅盾の発言を引いて，中間にあって矛盾を抱えている農民像をリアルに描くことを提起した。

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