文艺战线 Cultural Front

“In the face of invaders, literature and art cannot stop bullets. But they can make more people pick up guns.”

During the War of Resistance, the nation was shattered. As a left‑wing underground Party member, can you protect the pens of the Chinese people, so that in the darkest and most humiliating years, they write the hottest and sharpest words?

Lu Xun’s criticism, Cao Yu’s plays, Tian Han’s lyrics, Xiao Hong’s novels—can you use them to awaken the nation’s hatred and spur the people’s resistance? Zhang Henshui’s popular fiction, Zhang Ailing’s free‑spirited prose, Wen Yiduo’s polemics, Yu Dafu’s lyricism—will they be your weapons in struggle, or the shackles of your undercover existence?

Cultural resistance comes with sacrifice. You must face the bleak reality head‑on, and even more, look squarely at the spilt blood!

From the fall of the three northeastern provinces to the mopping‑up campaigns in Jin‑Cha‑Ji, from the literary circles of Jiangsu‑Zhejiang‑Shanghai to the guerrilla warfare in E‑Yu‑Wan, from the Nanjing Massacre to the Chongqing bombings—you walk alone through a land ablaze with war, guarding the cultural front. The cruelty of the Japanese invaders, the degeneration of the Military Statistics Bureau, the treachery of the Wang Jingwei regime, the battles of public opinion… At the end of the literary and artistic front, the full stop at the end of your life—will it be a blue verdict, a white ordeal, or the red of Yan’an?

The Japanese fascists seek to destroy our bodies and extinguish our culture. We have no guns—but every single word we write is a battlefield on which we fight the enemy. Every choice you make will show the invaders how literature and art can triumph, and how steel is tempered.

Lu Xun, Bing Xin, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Henshui, Yu Dafu, Wen Yiduo, Zhang Ailing… The literary and artistic resistance against Japan is a galaxy of brilliant stars, awaiting your efforts to unite them. Their emotions and their works are the bullets you fire at the Japanese invaders. Our literature and art must serve the people, and above all, must unsheathe our sword against the enemy.

Cultural resistance stretches across ten thousand rivers and a thousand mountains—the blizzards of the Northeast Anti‑Japanese United Army, the mountain moonlight of guerrilla fighters in the Southwest, the radio waves of espionage in Chongqing, the forums on literature and art in Yan’an…
Comrades have always held life and death lightly; true men should prize perilous and righteous deeds. This is the road that brought you here, and the body with which you shall depart.

Time is like a scythe, as you pass through the moments of history. Does your end lie in a victorious base area, on the lonely island of Taiwan, or aboard the sunken battleship Yamato?
Those literary and artistic works have never scattered with the wind. Like spring rain and gentle breezes, they drift past the Cambridge where we bid farewell once more, the Rain Lane where we reunite, and settle upon the banks of the Hulan River and the Sanggan River.

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