Yiyang, Hunan. Originally known as Zhou. After 1930s, China's * * * production party was one of the main leaders in the field of literature and art. I graduated from Shanghai Daxia University in my early years and studied in Japan. 193 1 returned to China, joined the Chinese Left-wing Writers' League the following year, became the actual leader of the "Left-wing", and participated in and led the revolutionary literature movement in China. In 1930s, he served as Party Secretary of the Central Left-wing Writers' Union, Secretary of the Cultural Committee of Shanghai Central Bureau, and Editor-in-Chief of Literature Monthly, a publication of the Left-wing Union. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it arrived in Yan 'an in the autumn of 1937. He used to be the director of education and the director of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
Dean of Lu Xun Art College and President of Yan 'an University. 1946 to 1949, Minister of Propaganda of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Central Bureau and North China Bureau. From 65438 to 0949, he participated in the preparation and convening of the national congress of literary and art workers and was elected as the vice chairman.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he successively served as Vice Minister of Culture, Vice Chairman of All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Vice Chairman and Consultant of Chinese Writers Association, Vice Minister and Consultant of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, Member of Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of China Academy of Sciences, Member of the State Council Science Planning Committee, Professor of Central Academy of Drama, Vice Chairman and Honorary Chairman of the Council of China Folk Literature and Art Research Association, Vice Chairman of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and Head of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Cultural Group. Vice President and Consultant of China Academy of Social Sciences, Alternate Member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Member of the Eleventh Central Committee, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Representative of the First to Third National People's Congress, and Member of the First to Fifth Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Known as the left-wing master of literature and art in the 1930s, the organizer of literature and art in the Liberated Areas in the 40s, the leader of literary struggle in the 1950s, the spokesman of Mao Zedong's literary thought in the 1960s, and the pioneer of ideological emancipation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
His major works include: The Times of Showing the New Masses, The Literature and Art of Newcomers, Resolutely Implementing Mao Zedong's Literary and Art Line, etc. His translated works include Anna karenin, Life and Aesthetics, etc. Zhou Yang's collected works have been published.
1July 3, 9891died in Beijing at the age of 8 1.