Speed Reading - Wang Meng Volume

Author: Guan Shengli (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Remember the late autumn of 1953! That very ordinary evening, in the quiet moment, the young life of Wang Meng was filled with love and insights for life. He could no longer suppress the desire to transform his current experiences into words. The life that was stirring the entire nation, the life that was igniting his young existence like fire, was to be captured in literary form. He aimed to record history, depict life, and preserve all the beautiful things and people of our nation through his writings, ensuring they were enshrined in the annals of New China's construction. In the course of Wang Meng's life experiences and literary creation, he always approached life with a philosophical mindset, using literary expression to seek the beauty in life and to find better reasons for existence. Through his own insights into life and at the cost of his youth, he demonstrated the existence of ordinary yet profound life through his personal experiences of historical processes. From this process, filled with artificially manufactured absurdity and contradictions, we can see the classic combinations of life—joy and pain, struggle and endurance, spirit and body, smiles and tears, loss and achievement.