Literature for the People, or Without the People? : A Discussion of Zhou Zuoren’s “People’s Literature”

Lee and Rob have an ongoing feud over May 4th Literature, with Rob championing it, and Lee attacking it. Lee’s ire reaches its focal point in this early essay by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun’s  brother, which he claims eliminates from literature any consideration of what it means to be properly human, while Rob defends the essay (to some extent) by pointing to the dire historical circumstances in which it was written.