League of Left-Wing Writers

Lu Xun delivered the opening address to the organizational meeting where he criticized the bourgeois writers of the Crescent Moon Society.

[4] On 7 February 1931, the Kuomintang party executed five members of the League: Li Weisen (Chinese: 李伟森; pinyin: Lǐwěisēn), Hu Yepin, Rou Shi, Yin Fu (Chinese: 殷夫; pinyin: Yīn fū), and Feng Keng in the "White Terror" period that followed the 1927 Shanghai massacre.

The purpose of the League was to promote socialist realism in support of the Communist Revolution, and it eventually became very influential in Chinese cultural circles.

These publications were founded with the purpose of uniting their efforts against the Crescent Moon Society writers like Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, and Liang Shiqiu, whom they saw as representatives of the "oppressive class" in literature.

These publications played a significant role in the Left-Wing Writers' League period, exerting considerable influence but eventually were all banned by the Kuomintang government.

Shortly after, debates within the party began on this topic, with Mao Dun and Lu Xun forming arguments against Qu Qiubai.