Literature and Art Should Not Be the Slaves of the Market (Excerpt from Chapter VI)

Abstract

General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered important speeches on literature and art since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. To Achieve Historical Missions of Socialist Literature and Art with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era makes a further study on these important speeches with accurate summary, core vision, and basic thought of literature and art. Based on discussing how to develop the theoretical system, this book explores the interconnection among Xi’s speeches on literature and art, revealing the basic rules of our literature and art for a new era and explaining how to seize the opportunity to practice in a new circumstance. This book focuses on the context of Xi’s speeches, combining the exploration of theory with the practice of literature and art in China. Under new circumstances, we constantly insist on integrating our practice with the new findings of literature and art to illustrate the value of Xi’s thought on literature and art and explore the reality and the connotation of Xi’s important speeches on literature and art in a more scientific and objective way. Xi’s important speeches on literature and art will provide continuing guidance in the work of Chinese literature and art.