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Title:: Between the Old and the New: An Examination of Xin Zhonghua Bao’s Coverage of Discussions on the “National Form”

Abstract:: The various literary and artistic supplements founded by Xin zhonghua bao systematically explained the important issue of “using the old form to convey new content”, and were the first to initiate the discussion on how to make the shift from the old form to the “national form”, and furthered this discussion in their coverage of the earliest dissemination of the new democratic culture in the first congress of the Cultural Association of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. The newspaper provided an important space for the discussion on the “national form” and has also preserved important historical materials for the study on this issue. Taking the literary and art supplements of Xin zhonghua bao as the object to explore their main views and important roles in the reports on the “national form” is of great significance for expanding the research vision and excavating new historical materials to explain the process of the Sinicization of Marxist literary and art theory.