Group Theory of Contemporary Chinese Novelists

Author: Huang Weilin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Huaxia Talent Fund Academic Collection. Different cultural contexts shape different people, and different people create diverse literatures. The complex and ever-changing literary landscape of contemporary China stems from the unique cultural composition and varied life experiences of its people. People are accustomed to examining literature from the perspective of society and the times, while this book takes a different approach, tracing the roots of the extraordinary and diverse literary phenomena of contemporary Chinese literature from the perspective of individuals. This unique perspective brings to light many previously hidden issues in the field of literature. More importantly, the novelists—red classic novelists, "rightist" novelists, educated youth novelists, late-generation novelists, regional cultural novelists, and female novelists—no longer appear merely in the form of texts, but also as human beings in their true state.