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What kind of writing did the All-China Anti-Japanese Federation of Writers and Artists encourage during the war?
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Zhang Fei on the Long Sloped Bridge Turning Away One Million Wei Troops with a Powerful Stare, woodblock colour print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1884. It depicts a scene from the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937â1945), the All-China Anti-Japanese Federation of Writers and Artists encouraged the production of patriotic literature to support the war effort. The federation urged writers to travel to the countryside and the front lines, which led to the rise of reportage (baogao wenxue) as an influential genre.1
Literary magazines of the time featured a variety of accessible and adaptable works, including:
- Short, easily produced plays1
- Topical patriotic verse1
- War-zone dispatches1
This movement represented all literary genres, as writers sought to contribute directly to the national cause during the conflict.1