Ghost

Author: Zhang Yu
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: The purpose of "Top 50 Chinese Novels" is clearly to review the achievements of contemporary Chinese fiction over the past two decades, to provide a summary of what has become literary history, and to offer a reference for literary history writing and other selections. It aims to provide readers who love literature with a relatively complete and comprehensive reading that allows for a better understanding of the overall picture of contemporary fiction creation over the past two decades. Over these two decades, several generations of writers with very different concepts, experiences, and mindsets have emerged, as well as a vast array of works with very different concerns, narratives, and styles. The selected works in "Top 50 Chinese Novels" (1978-2000) confirm this view to some extent. Chinese writers, constrained by historical traditions and real-world environments, have seen the development and changes in fiction creation and ideas also tied to these traditions and realities. Around the 1970s, fiction began to show different pursuits and characteristics from the era of integration. As a form of imaginative and fictional writing, it gradually shed its singular political objectives and emphasized didactic functions. Issues related to human nature, such as inner suffering, emotional needs, and ideological conflicts, began to be reflected and expressed in fiction.