From the definition of “Socialist Realism” on Baidu Encyclopedia, a collaborative, web-based, Chinese-language encyclopedia →.
Mao Zedong, Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art →.
Ibid.
Wan Shaojun, Youhua Zhongguo Feng—Dong Xiwen Yishu Sixiang yu Chuangzuo Shijian Tixi de Zai Renshi (Oil Painting’s Chinese Style—Reappraising Dong Xiwen’s System of Artistic Ideas and Creative Practices), Dong Xiwen Yanjiu Wenji (Collected Research Writings on Dong Xiwen).
Ibid.
Dong Xiwen, “Ziwo Jiancha (Self-Examination),” Dong Xiwen Yanjiu Wenji (Collected Research Writings on Dong Xiwen), Beijing Academy of Painting. Originally published in Meishu Yanjiu (Fine Art Research) vol. 2 (1958): 256–257.
Gao Hua, Geming Niandai (The Years of Revolution), fifth printing, first edition (Guangdong: Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group, 2011), 136.
Wu Yinxian’s website →.
Ibid.
Letter from Wu Yinxian to Jiang Qing, July 3, 1969.
Gao Hua, Xushi Shijiao de Duoyangxing yu Dangdaishi Yanjiu: yi 50 Niandai Lishi Yanjiu Wei Lie (Diversity of Narrative Perspective and Contemporary Research: the Case of Historical Research on the 1950s), Geming Niandai (The Years of Revolution) (Guangdong: People’s Publishing House, 289).
To be continued in "From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part II." This text was translated from the Chinese by Jeff Crosby.