The League of the Left-Wing Writers was an organization of writers formed in China in 1930, at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party and the influence of the celebrated author Lu Xun.[1] Other members included leaders of the Sun Society and the Creation Society, and the later-infamous cultural commissar Zhou Yang. The League articulated theories on the political role of literature that foreshadowed the influential Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art of Mao Zedong, and engaged in running debates with the "art for art's sake" Crescent Moon Society.