This thesis studied the situation of the platitude novels in the changing literature environment in the 1950s. Especially it noticed the effect which in the modern have on the creation and distributions of platitude novels. It regarded it as the restraint of distributions and development of platitude novels that there were big changes of the publishing regulations and system after the 1950s. In this context, we need to notice the activities of Beijing popular literature creation society established in the early 1950s. They wanted to supply with works expressing revolutions in which the uneducated, could easily understand and agree. But the mainstream at that time needed to show more high-level socialistic ideas than popular literatures. The uneducated could not satisfy their needs, interest, and entertainment which were critical subjects. At last the position of platitude novels oblige themselves to be trifling and inferior to realism literature. Also writers in platitude novels could not hold the leading positions from the literature in those days.

• 金孝柍