Different from the stagnant bureaucratic system, the Yan’an literaryart system laid its basis on the unification of intellectual and political stances. This is closely related with the CPC’s view of the role of the writer in the revolutionary alliance. What it concentrates on is the possibility of the selfconstruction of writers (and intellectuals in general) as revolutionary subjects. Within this system, the relationship between writer and the CCP’s bureaucratic organization had been transformed to be the relationship between writer and the masses, the latter of which actually played a dynamic position as the “other” witnessing the selfconstruction of writers and this constituted the “noninstitutional” basis of the Yan’an literaryart system.

Talks at Yan’an Forum of Arts and Literature; culture troup; revolutionary organization; “mass”； selfreconstruction