Introduction to Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Fiction - Volumes 1 and 2

Author: Yu Kexun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The selection of works in this book follows several basic principles: First, between the literary historical significance and literary quality of the works, more emphasis is placed on the literary quality. The so-called literary historical significance of a work refers to the influence it gains due to its special status in literary history. Second, when selecting works, attention is paid to the diversity of the novelistic forms. The works selected for this book are mainly realistic and romantic novels, in addition to some "avant-garde novels" that are included because of their influence from Western modernism or characterized by certain radical artistic experiments. Third, the selected works in this book are mainly short and medium-length fiction. Considering the limited scope of this book, some longer medium-length and full-length novels can only be included in the form of "entries," but an excessive number of entries will inevitably reduce the length of the original novel texts. Therefore, when selecting works, the book had to compress the number of entries for medium-length and full-length novels.