摘要
LITERATURE and art,thespiritural products of society,are showing the effects ofreform and the socialist marketeconomy.How writers and artistsare handling the relationship be-tween art and economy is a currentissue.At the First Plenary Session ofthe Eighth National People’s Politi-cal Consultative Conference,I inter-viewed several people from China’sliterary and art circles.Facing the Reality ofChallengeSome cultural departments