Book Critique of Ten Writers. 2

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 "classic" writers who have gained undeserved fame off 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 illustrious golden banners are openly guiding the naive Chinese readers onto an elusive literary journey, confining our aesthetic tastes invisibly and misleading our reading paths. We have been half-asleep for almost half a century. Today, we say no to them!