Method of imagining China: History. Fiction. Narrative: History. Fiction. Narrative

Author: Wang De-wei
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Fiction is one of the most important literary genres in modern Chinese literature. Over the past century, fiction has recorded various tearful and laughable phenomena in the history of China's modernization, and the transformation of fiction itself has also become one of the symbols of China's modernization. In 1902, intellectuals like Liang Qichao advocated for "New Fiction," believing that "to renew the people of a nation, it is necessary to first renew its fiction."