Bodhisattva Precepts (Volume 1 of "Top 50 Chinese Novels")

Author: Wang Zengqi
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: Over the span of more than 20 years, several generations of writers with vastly different concepts, experiences, and mindsets have emerged, as have countless works with diverse themes, narratives, and styles. The selected works in "Top 50 Chinese Novels (1978-2000)" included here bear witness to this view, proving it is not unfounded. Chinese writers are constrained by historical traditions and contemporary realities, and the development and evolution of fiction and its concepts cannot be divorced from these traditions and realities. Around the late 1970s, novels began to reflect different aspirations and characteristics from the era of unification. As a form of imaginative and fictional writing, it gradually shed its singular political objectives and the emphasized didactic function. Issues related to human nature, such as inner suffering, emotional needs, and intellectual conflicts, began to be reflected and expressed in novels.