Vero Publishing - Without Revolutionary Literary Renaissance, No People's Awaken

Without Revolutionary Literary Renaissance, There Can Be No People's Awakening

— Commentary on the Serialization of "Black and White" on Revival Net

Zhang Hongliang，2024

This is our original intention and hope in recommending and serializing Mr. Liu Jiming's "Black and White" to everyone, and also our original intention and hope in previously serializing Mr. Meizi's "Red Wall Dream."

Starting today, our website will serialize the masterwork "Black and White" by contemporary China's renowned writer Mr. Liu Jiming. "Black and White" is a panoramic novel covering all periods of China's modern history—the Republican period, the socialist construction period, the mass political revolution period, and the reform and opening-up period. It has been praised by Professor Kong Qingdong, a great contemporary literary critic, as a monumental work comparable to world classics. We welcome everyone to come and read it.

The novel "Black and White" is a revolutionary work that views and interprets history from the people's standpoint. In today's corrupt Chinese literary scene represented by "scar literature" that accuses revolution and decadent "double-yin literature" [note: vulgar literature focused on sexual content], this is undoubtedly a thunderclap and a spring breeze. Looking at human history, no generation has experienced more earth-shaking, soul-inverting experiences than this generation of Chinese people, experiencing repeated torment from heaven to hell in just a few decades. Just the scene of tens of millions of workers laid off and hundreds of thousands of women forced into prostitution created by "Hu Hansan has returned" [note: reference to a character representing the return of old oppressive forces] alone exceeds all imagination about suffering in human history, making it difficult for future historians and descendants to believe. Therefore, history and the people desperately need revolutionary works that describe the truth of evil and suffering, desperately need revolutionary works like those claimed by French writer Ernaux, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature: "My novels are taking revenge for the people." Fortunately, revolutionary works represented by "Black and White" have begun to appear.

The appearance of such revolutionary works means that history that has been inverted in the field of literature and art will be reinverted, and the phenomenon of decadent and counter-revolutionary works represented by "double-yin literature" and "scar literature" flooding China's social literary and artistic fields will collapse. The people will move toward awakening and liberation in spirit and thought. Without the Renaissance movement, there would have been no bourgeois ideological liberation movement and bourgeois revolution; without the Chinese left-wing cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, the ideological foundation for Marxism entering China would not have been laid; without mass literary and artistic revolution, there would be no third ideological liberation movement and mass political revolution in human history that is now beginning in today's world. Similarly, without a renaissance movement of revolutionary literature and art in contemporary China, there will absolutely be no great rise of the Chinese nation. This is why we have emphasized for many years that as long as China cannot produce works like "Chinese Migrant Workers" and "Laid-off Female Workers," and does not repent to the suffering people, China will never find the basic conscience to stand among the world's nations.

Revolution, which once wandered outside and was declared dead, has now awakened and is walking on the road home. The surging anti-capitalist movements rising one after another in today's world mark that revolution has knocked on the door of the contemporary world. Whether the door of revolution can be opened depends on one hand on whether the concepts of mass democratic movement and mass political revolution can be accepted by the world; on the other hand, and more importantly, on whether the spring breeze of revolutionary literature and art that can bind the emotions and souls of the masses together to form unified strength can blow across the world and awaken every soul that has been numbed by the demonic fog of demonizing revolution. Since the 1980s, the evil tide of accusing and demonizing revolution has blown from east to west across every corner of the world, poisoning the world for more than 40 years, soaking the hearts of people worldwide in the poisonous water of rumors and lies for more than 40 years. Only through a thorough revolutionary literary and artistic renaissance movement can the people's hearts that have been soaked in poisonous water for more than 40 years be washed clean, the door of revolution opened, and revolution welcomed home.

September 2, 2024
(Originally published on National Revival Net)