This paper is an attempt to shed a new light on an aspect of the Chinese literary field during the 1950’s through a multilateral analysis of the early 1950’s WenYiBao. WenYiBao is an official organ of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Arts Circles first published in 1949 and is one of the central publications of the Chinese Communist Party designated as a ‘national publication’. A majority of debates and arguments regarding important issues unfolded on the pages of WenYiBao, making WenYiBao a greatly suitable text subject of study for examining prominent issues and characteristics of the formation of China’s literary field. This essay, through an analysis of WenYiBao, calls attention to the fact that one of the systemic causes that aggravated the conflicts within China’s literary field is the rank-based policy of their literary publications and organization and its byproducts. Those who were the most harshly criticized in the 1950’s literary field —Feng Xuefeng, Hu Feng, Ding Ling, Chen Qixia —being individuals either directly or indirectly associated with WenYiBao is a significant exemplification of the effect a national publication policy had on China’s literary field of the time.