Book Criticizing Ten Writers

Author: Wang Shuo
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This is a violent and subversive act against contemporary Chinese literature, dragging down the "classic" writers who have gained undeserved fame from their pedestals. Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Liu Zhenyun, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Bei Cun, Yu Hua, Chi Li, and Chen Zhongshi—these names or figures gilded by the official and market forces are shamelessly leading Chinese readers on a terrible literary journey, crudely dictating our aesthetic tastes and maliciously altering our reading paths. The publication of this book has been regarded as an event in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Liu Zhenyun, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Bei Cun, Yu Hua, Chi Li, and Chen Zhongshi—these shining golden banners are openly guiding the naive Chinese readers onto a distant literary voyage. Our aesthetic tastes have been subjected to invisible constraints, and our reading paths have been misled. We have been half-asleep for nearly half a century. Today, we say no to them!