Fool's Psalms - Top 50 Chinese Novels

Author: Ge Fei
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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 concerns, narratives, and styles. The selected works in The 50 Best Chinese Novels (1978-2000) included in this collection bear witness to this observation being far from baseless. Chinese writers, constrained by historical traditions and contemporary realities, have seen the development and evolution of novel writing and ideas remain inseparable from these traditions and realities. Around the late 1970s, novels began to reveal distinct pursuits and characteristics that differed from those of the unified era. As a form of imaginative and fictional expression, they gradually shed their singular political objectives and emphasized didactic functions. Issues related to human nature—such as inner suffering, emotional needs, and intellectual conflicts—began to be reflected and depicted in novels.