Chapter 119 "New Observation" edited by Ge Yang suffers

In 1950, Hu Qiaomu, Mao Zedong's political secretary, deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and director of the General Information Administration, consulted with four female generals in order to organize the "New Observation" magazine.Hu Qiaomu set a sixteen-character policy for "New Observation", namely: "It is rich in pictures and texts, lively and fresh, and talks about everything from ancient to modern, Chinese and foreign." These four female generals are Ge Yang, Pu Xixiu, Zi Gang, and Yu Feng, four famous female journalists in China.

In the Chinese press, these four female generals are called the "Four Famous Dans". Ge Yang, one of the "Four Famous Danes", was named by Hu Qiaomu and transferred from Shanghai to Beijing to serve as the first editor-in-chief of "New Observation" magazine. However, in 1957, Ge Yang, along with Pu Xixiu and Zigang, were all classified as "right"... Ge Yang was born in 1916 in Hai'an County, Jiangsu Province.He graduated from Zhenjiang Normal School in 1937.He joined the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu in 1941 and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year.She has served as a reporter, editor, director of the South Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency, director of the North Jiangsu Branch, and director of the East China Branch.In 1946, he served as the director of the interview department of Shandong "Dazhong Daily" and the deputy editor-in-chief of "Weifang Daily".

In 1949, Ge Yang came to Shanghai and served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the East China Branch of Xinhua News Agency. Since 1950, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Beijing "New Observation" magazine.From then on, Ge Yang's fate was closely related to "New Observation" magazine. During the "Anti-Rightist Movement" in 1957, "New Observation" was severely bombarded. "New Observation" was criticized, and the initial fuse was Fei Xiaotong.On July 9, 1957, Fei Xiaotong explained at a group meeting of the National People's Congress:

"There are my students among the reporters of "New Observation". I want to use the relationship of "New Observation" to open up a field to expand the influence of my thoughts." The student Fei Xiaotong mentioned was Huang Sha, a reporter for "New Observation" magazine and the deputy head of the social life group. On July 17, 1957, the "People's Daily" published an article "Interrogating New Observations" signed by "Lin Jin".This article uses Fei Xiaotong as a breakthrough to attack "New Observation".Because Fei Xiaotong has become a representative figure among the "rightists", as long as "linking" "New Observation" with Fei Xiaotong, "New Observation" can be pushed to the "right".The article reads:

"New Observation" has recently published a lot of anti-socialist and inflammatory articles. These remarks are in the same strain as the right-wing ideology, showing the serious right-leaning ideology of the editorial department. The tenth issue of "New Observation" published on May 16 published a comprehensive report on the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the magazine. The article was entitled "When the Garden of Buds Blooms", which sold a large amount of private goods of the rightists.This article first greatly praised Fei Xiaotong's article "The Early Spring Weather of Intellectuals".Everyone knows what Fei Xiaotong wrote in that article. He believed that before the party put forward the policy of contending among a hundred schools of thought, there was no spring, there was only severe cold and freezing, and now it is only early spring weather.Originally, this only reflected the feelings of Fei Xiaotong and a very small number of backward elements, but when "New Observation" recounted this article, it said in a tone of praise: "Mr. Fei Xiaotong's feelings are of certain representative significance. Yes. Because "early spring" really explained the mood of the intellectuals at that time. Since it is the climate of early spring, it is unavoidable to be cold and warm." He said affirmatively: "The metaphor of early spring weather, everyone agrees." Here people don't feel like asking , What point of view does "New Observation" use to observe and conclude that the metaphor of early spring is consistent with everyone's views?With whom do you "consistent"? Who does "everyone" refer to?

"Anti-Rightist Hero" Yao Wenyuan also joined the ranks of criticizing "New Observation".On July 19, 1957, he published the article "A Poisoned Arrow Shot by New Observation" in the "People's Daily", criticizing: In the May 16th issue of "New Observation", there was an article "A little note on the situation of 'a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending' in the past month", entitled "When the Garden is full of buds", the author is a "reporter of this journal", and it was published in The first page.

To sum it up in one simple sentence: This article is a poisoned arrow directed at the party... It is clear enough who the article "New Observation" is speaking for. "New Observation" is one of the literary and artistic publications led by the Writers Association, and newspapers and periodicals are tools of class struggle.My intention in writing these articles is to hope that this weapon will be in the hands of the proletariat, not in the hands of the bourgeoisie. Immediately afterwards, on the 26th, Shanghai Wen Wei Po published a report naming Ge Yang: "Fei Xiaotong colluded with Huang Sha to attack <New Observation> editor-in-chief Ge Yang lost his position in support of rightist activities <New Observation> editorial department held a meeting to expose the reactionary words and deeds of rightists"

The report states: Since July 9th, the editorial department of "New Observation" magazine has held staff meetings continuously to check the direction of the publication and launch an anti-rightist struggle.During the struggle, he exposed and criticized the reactionary conspiracy of Fei Xiaotong colluding with the rightist Huang Sha of the journal, and criticized Comrade Ge Yang, the editor-in-chief of the journal, for his rightist ideas and mistakes in supporting rightist activities. Since last autumn, "New Observation" has successively published some articles with bourgeois ideology and unfavorable socialism; after the rectification movement began, a number of poisonous arrows against the Party appeared in the magazine.Not only was the editorial department not prepared to refute these reactionary articles for a long time, but it also gave readers poisonous weeds as fragrant flowers, such as "Journey to the West New Edition" (No. Issue 11, 1957), "Women's Requirements" (Issue 1, 1957), "The Beast's Kitchen" (Issue 24, 1956), "When the Garden of Buds Blooms" (No. 10, 1957), "Why Not Enough" and "Small Collection of Rain and Rain" (No. 12, 1957), "What Do Reporters Do?" "(No. 11, 1957) and more than a dozen articles, eleven of which were written by people from the editorial department.Among these articles, the one that most represents the rightist thinking of the editorial department is the report "When the Garden of Buds Bloom" published in the name of a "journalist". A poisoned arrow was shot, but the editor put it on the front page of the journal; "Why Not Enough" was written by the reporter Li Jin of the journal, which was a vicious provocative and provocative article, and it was also placed in an important position of the journal.

This report, under the subtitle "Editor-in-Chief Goyan's Rightist Thoughts," exposed Goyan's "serious mistakes": The congress sharply criticized and exposed editor-in-chief Go Yang's rightist ideology and serious mistakes of losing the party's position.Everyone agreed that the reason why the rightists in the editorial department were so arrogant, and that the publication of "New Observation" was gradually deteriorating, was inseparable from Ge Yang's serious mistakes. Many comrades pointed out that after the Hungarian incident, Goyan became doubtful and vacillated on some fundamental issues, and right opportunism became more and more serious.As a party member, Ge Yang was the leader of the anti-revolutionary movement in the editorial department, but when the anti-revolutionary movement was summed up, he adopted a completely negative attitude towards the achievements of the anti-revolutionary movement.She believes that the anti-revolutionary movement should not adopt the method of mass movement. She said: "If the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held half a year earlier, we might not use this method to carry out the anti-revolutionary movement." I once said in front of many people: "Doctrine binds people. As a party member in the past, I was either a lunatic or a dead person. I can only talk about my heart in my own room." From Ge Yang's anti-Party remarks, The smell of party members can no longer be smelled.

On the afternoon of November 4, 1988, I interviewed Ge Yang at the editorial office of "New Observation" in Beijing. Goyang said that for her criticism, at first she only said that she had made a "serious mistake", and later she was further labeled as a "rightist".She was designated as a "rightist" on March 8, 1958--this day is "March 8 International Women's Day".At that time, a document contained more than 20 of her "rightist" words and deeds, and she was asked to sign.She signed without looking at it. Since then, she has dropped from level eleven to level fourteen.Goyang said that she has no interest in this so-called "cadre level", so she doesn't care about "demotional punishment".

Goyang told the author: "I have always been a worker, not an official. Some people value these 'levels' too much, but I never value them." Ge Yang said that in fact, she was not a "rightist", but a leftist.So, labeling her a "rightist", she couldn't figure it out at first! Ever since she was labeled as a "rightist", she became calm, began to think seriously, and finally realized... She was first "decentralized" to work in rural Hebei, and then transferred to Liaoning to edit the "Yalu River" literary magazine. After the "Cultural Revolution" began, she was tortured again and was "sent down" to the desert of Inner Mongolia.She told the author: "From 1969 to 1978, I was tortured to death! I had hepatitis, four '+'... That's right, I called myself 'Shawo old woman'." It was not until 1980 that Ge Yang finally returned to Beijing from Inner Mongolia and was busy with the resumption of publication of "New Observation".Just then, she fell ill.The initial diagnosis was lung cancer, but after examination, it was determined to be tuberculosis, and a lobe of the lung was removed. So, she edited "New Observation".Her fate is once again closely linked with "New Observation"...