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 | | The state promotes the development of literature and art, the press, broadcasting and television undertakings, publishing and distribution services, libraries, museums, cultural centres and other cultural undertakings, that serve the people and socialism, and sponsors mass cultural activities. |
 | | As Mao put the matter in his famous lectures at Yan'an in the spring of 1942, art and literature must "awaken and arouse the masses and impel them to unite and struggle to change their environment. |
 | | Advocates of the so-called "Root-Seeking Literature" of the 1980s--including A Cheng, Han Shaogong, Jia Pingwa, Li Hangyu and Mo Yan-- were more nostalgic than the Misty poets but, likewise inclined toward the use of creative and unorthodox imagery. |
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