June 1st, 2021 
Required readings:
1: Mao Zedong, Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art (1942)
2: Zhao Shuli, The Marriage of Young Blacky (1943)
3: Mao Zedong’s poems: “Kunlun” (1935), “The Long March” (1935), “Snow” (1936), “The Capture of Nanking by the People’s Liberation Army” (1949).
Question:
1. Explain why Zhao Shuli’s story “The Marriage of Young Blacky” is regarded as a model example of communist literature following the instructions of Mao Zedong’s Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art (1942).
*** All three articles are in the same file below, you can check it.
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