During the period from the year 1914 to 1949, there were over 130 famous writers in Zhejiang province among whom about 20 persons enjoyed high reputations in the literature circle and led the new wave of the China's literature. The Shaoxing Zhou brothers were most famous: Lu Xun (viz. Zhou Shuren) was considered the founder of the new literature, especially the modern novel and scribbles; and his younger brother Zhou Zuoren was a prose master of the era who initialed the so-called Human Literature. The Fuyang writer Yu Dafu was a great master of the early modern novels. The Haining native Xu Zhimo and Jinhua native Ai Qing were great masters of the modern poems. The Hangzhou native Xia Yan was the forerunner of the modern drama and films. Moreover, these writers can be divided in different genres: the Tongxiang native Mao Dun was a master of realistic writings; Yu Dafu was the forerunner of the romanticism; the Hangzhou native Dai Wangshu was the forerunner of the modern genre poems. Zhejiang writers became the leaders of the three main genres of Chinese Literature then which was unprecedented in Zhejiang's literature history as well as Chinese literature history.
As for novel, in May 1918, Lu Xun presented Bedlamite's Diary, the first vernacular novel of the modern Chinese Literature on the magazine New Youth. It used some unique art ploys in figuring the rebelled person from the feudal system and whooped to save the young generation. The novel was considered the cornerstone of the Chinese New Literature. Later on, Lu Xun had accomplished about 33 novels like Kong Yiji, Medicine and Blessing in 20 years, all of which were collected in the novel volumes like Whooping, Hesitation and New Collection of Stories. The Lu Xun's novel Ah Q's Life was the first nouvelle of the modern Chinese Literature. In 1921, Yu Dafu presented the first short stories collection of the modern Chinese Literature, namely Sinking which was considered as a flag of the romantic novels. Later, he presented about 50 novels like A Night Soaked In the Spring Wind, Bo Dian and Late Sweet-scented Osmanthus. He considered that novel should reveal one's true feelings and be with strong subjective flavor. He endowed the modern novels with romantic spirits. Furthermore, on the magazine Novel Monthly edited by the Tongxiang native Shen Yanbin, there appeared a lot of Zhejiang writers' novels like Wang Renshu's The Tired Person, Xu Jie's Sad Fog and Wang Yiren's The Single Wild Goose , all of which had great impact on the literature circle.
	Lu Xun's family (taken in 1933)

The Left Wing Literature had been the mainstream in 1930s. Mao Dun wrote the famous novel Midnight as well as Eroding series which was consisted of three novels like Disillusion, Perturbation and Pursuit. The novel Midnight was written in January 1933, which was magnificent in conceiving, complicated in composing and reflected the tragedy of the modern national industry. It is the first realistic river novel of China and considered a milestone of the modern Chinese Literature. Similarly, Mao Dun's realistic skill was also applied in the short novels like Spring Silkworms and The Lin's Shop which mainly reflected the lifestyles of the people lived in rural areas and small towns in River South. The Ninghai writer Rou Shi was the representative of the young Left Wing writers then whose novel February reflected the depressed and lost feelings of the young intellectuals and For the Slave Mother revealed his fluent realistic writing skills. Contemporarily, Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying made the monthly Moderns Times as their battlefield and wrote a lot of works with realistic style. Shi Zhecun was good at applying the Floyd's analysis method in his psychoanalysis novels like General's Head and The Evening of the Plum-rain Period. Mu Shiying imitated the writing skills of western modern style in the novel collection Cemetery. Thus he was regarded as the Master of the Chinese New Sense School.
After the burst of the Anti-Japan War, a lot of Zhejiang writers wrote many novels to call for the national liberation such as Mao Dun's Corruption and The Frosted Leaves Are Redder Than the February Flowers, Gu Sifan's New Peachblossom Fan, Xu Yu's The Rustling Winds. The female writer Su Qing resided in Shanghai and wrote the novels of Ten Years After Marriage and Sequel of Ten Years After Marriage. Another female writer Chen Xuezhao published her representative river novel Working Is Beautiful in the liberated area.
Besides, Cai Dongfan's popular novel The Romance of the Dynasties was also an important novel then.
	Mao Dun

As for poem, there were many exploiters for the modern new type poems in Zhejiang then. Shen Yimo wrote the poem Three Strings which was praised as "the most complete poem of the new type" by Hu Shi. Liu Dabai's Ballad of Selling Clothes and Tian Zhu Lai focused on the real lives of the common people. In 1920, Shen Xuanlu released the first new type narrative poem, Shiwu Niang. In 1922, the Lakeside Poem Association was established in Hangzhou and the its members like Pan Mohua, Feng Xuefeng, Wang Jingzhi and Ying Xiuren co-published a poem collection Lakeside which mainly paid a contribute to the nature and love. In addition, Yu Pingbo's A Winter Night and Wang Jingzhi's Hui's Winds were also two early individual poem collections in new literature history.

Xu Zhimo had been the most active poet in 1920s and the representative of the New Moon School. He had released four poem collections like Zhimo's Poems, A Night In Florentine, Wild Tiger Collection and Wandering which were mainly love poems and lyrics and reflected the New Moon School's opinions on poem, i.e. to display the combined beauty of music, painting and architecture. The poem Depart Cambridge Again was the masterpiece of Xu Zhimo. Chen Mengjia was also a poet of the New Moon School who released the collection of Mengjia's Poems and edited the poem collection of the New Moon School, namely Chosen Collection of the New Moon School. Dai Wangshu released his first collection and the early representative work Rain Lane in 1928 which won the name of Rain Lane Poet for himself and was praised by Ye Shengtao as the poems which made a start for the new type poems in syllable. And he also released the collections like My Memories and Wangshu Grass and some famous poems like With My Deformed Palm and Writing On the Wall When in Jail in the later years.

In 1930s, Yin Fu had been the representative of the Left Wing and his political instigation poems like The Bloody Characters and Farewell to My Brother had caused great stir then. Ai Qing's masterpiece Dayan River, My Nurserymaid expressed his deep feelings to his homeland and the people. Besides, his long lyric Towards the Sun and collection The North were also very famous.

During the Anti-Japanese War period, there appeared a progressive poem school in the Kuomintang-ruled area, namely July School. Its members released many poems to sing for the revolution and the liberated citadels, such as Ah Long's The Stringless Instrument and Jia Fang's The Springing Night. The Jiuye (nine leaves) School represented by Mu Dan, Tang Shi and Yuan Kejia usually used the representation methods of the Western Modern School which emphasized the connotation of poems and released works like the Mu Dan's Poem Collection.
As for prosaic poem, there were many Zhejiang native writers with great contributions. Shen Yimo's Moon Night was considered the first attempt of the prosaic poem and Zhuo Zuoren's Little Stream was also an early stage prosaic poem. And Shen Yimo's Three Strings marked the formal birth of the Chinese prosaic poem. Lu Xun's Wild Grass was an excellent work. There were also famous works like Mao Dun's Before The Thunder Storm, Lu Li's Starfish and Mo Luo's The Tree of Life, etc.
As for prose, Lu Xun's scribbles and Xia Yan's reportage were most representative ones. Lu Xun was the founder of the modern scribbles. He wrote his first scribble My Opinion on Pudicity and later released the collections like Hot Winds, Collection of Two Hearts and Collection of South and North Accents, etc. Zhou Zuoren released his scribble collection Talking About the Tiger too and Tang Tao presented his scribble collections including Back Message and The Collection of Sea and Sky. During the Anti-Japanese and Emancipation Wars, there were many scribble writers like Xia Yan, Feng Xuefeng,and Ba Ren.
In 1925, The Contracted Slaves written by Xia Yan marked the maturity of reportage and a milestone in Chinese Literature history. The writers like Cao Jureng, Zhao Chaogou and Lou Shiyi written a lot of reportages too.
During the period, there were many famous prose collections like Lu Xun's Picking Morning Flowers in the Evening, Zhou Zuoren's A Book Written On A Rainy Day and Marshes Collection, Yu Pingbo's Yan Zhi Grass, Feng Zikai's The Gossip of Yuanyuan Hall, Xia Gaizun's Scribble of Bungalow, Xu Zhimo's Aimei's Reading Notes, Yu Dafu's Dafu's Travel Notes and Mao Dun's The Paean For Alamo, etc.
	Yu Dafu

As for drama and film, Zhejiang drama was started by Chen Dabei's plays like The Hero and The Beauty and The Quiet Orchid Lady. Xia Yan's Sai Jinhua, Beneath the Eaves of Shanghai and The Fascist Bacteria were also excellent plays; Pu Shunqing's silent film play Angus's Doll was the first film play of Zhejiang and Xia Yan's The Violent Currents was the first published film play of Zhejiang. During the Left Wing Film Movement period, there were many excellent works like Shen Xiling's Crossroads, Yuan Muzhi's The Strategy of the Graduates and The Angel of the Street and Shi Dongshan's The Long Journey Under Clouds and Moon, etc.
As for the children's literature, the Zhou's brothers were actually the founders of the nation in the field. Zhuo Zuoren not only developed the theories of the children's literature, but also wrote a lot of children's songs. In 1925, Yu Pingbo released the first children's poem collection of the nation -- Memories. There were many representative works in modern times like Jin Jin's long narrative poem Xiao Mao's Life, Ying Xiuren's short fairy tale Gold Pagoda and Silver Pagoda and Feng Zikai's Huazhan's Diary, etc.
	Mao Dun's manuscript