Abstract
This study examines Feng Zikai’s essays from 1956 to 1965 as products of his attempts to come to terms with the social, political, and cultural situation of the era through writing literary pieces and essays. This analysis of his prose writings that were created over a ten-year stretch bookmarked by the Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Cultural Revolution presents Feng Zikai’s hesitant reassessment of his own work, its intellectual and artistic foundations, and his difficult search for a conformist but at the same time authentic essayistic voice that would allow him to grasp and accept the reality of this period.
Highlights
This study examines Feng Zikai’s essays from 1956 to 1965 as products of his attempts to come to terms with the social, political, and cultural situation of the era through writing literary pieces and essays
If we carefully read his essays from this era, we discover that despite his clearly earnest attempts to present his ideas and writings that conformed with the political ideology of the era, Feng Zikai regularly expressed an authentic, erudite, and often highly critical voice
The third period surpasses the dialectical tensions of the earlier eras, but it corrects their misguidedness. This type of three-stage argument, whose source of inspiration can be found in traditional Buddhist thought, is a strategy that Feng Zikai regularly applied in many of his prewar essays
Summary
This study examines Feng Zikai’s essays from 1956 to 1965 as products of his attempts to come to terms with the social, political, and cultural situation of the era through writing literary pieces and essays.
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