History of Modern Chinese Fiction

Author: Yang Yi
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book, with an open perspective and rich, substantial primary materials, establishes a literary history framework with a three-dimensional and dynamically evolving process from general theory, school-based author group theory, and author theory. The entire book systematically and deeply traces the development of literary concepts, trends, schools, and genres from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, as well as the complex connections between modern literature and classical literature and foreign literature. It discusses 110 authors in chapters, involving over 600 authors, and reviews more than 2,000 works. The book highly evaluates the mainstream significance of leftist literature and liberation zone literature represented by Lu Xun, re-evaluates and discovers many authors with artistic individuality, and conducts research on literature during the War of Resistance, South China literature, Taiwanese and Hong Kong literature, as well as the old-style novel in the chapter-by-chapter format, which also fills the gaps and deficiencies in previous literary history structures. This book has been listed as a teaching material and required reading for graduate students by a number of renowned universities both domestically and internationally.