People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Lu Xun 鲁迅 Author of The True Story of Ah Q, father of modern Chinese literature who carried May Fourth’s critical spirit into the left-wing league
- Ding Ling 丁玲 From Miss Sophia’s Diary to The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, a writer who lived through Yan’an and the anti-rightist purge
- Wang Shiwei 王实味 The writer whose “Wild Lilies” criticised privilege at Yan’an and made him the rectification movement’s first victim