Modern Chinese Literary History

Author: Zhou Xiaoming / Wang Youping (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: From the mid-19th century when the Opium War broke out to the mid-20th century when the People's Republic of China was established, Chinese society faced crises and urgent turns, undergoing comprehensive transformations in both nature and structure. This historical pattern fundamentally altered the direction and evolution of literature. Transforming traditional literature into modern art and adapting foreign influences into local experiences, modern Chinese literature, under the of history, rooted itself in the times and reality, actively explored, and strived to create. It was profound in transformation—from aesthetic concepts to literary trends, it laid the foundation for a new type of national literature. It was far-reaching in significance—providing the most vivid and richly illustrated records of the comprehensive transformation of modern Chinese society and culture, and itself becoming one of the powerful driving forces and an integral part of this transformation. Modern Chinese literature has journeyed through storms and shared both glory and disgrace. With the wisdom and courage to transform tradition while inheriting the classics and to break with the old history while writing the new, it haswritten a century of brilliance for the national literature in the modern era! The fundamental intention of this book's compilation is to take the literature within the scope of the nation and sovereign state of "modern China" as the object of narration, with the process of literary modernization and its main literary forms at each stage as the basic thread and framework. It focuses on sorting out the history of the emergence, development, and evolution of modern Chinese literature from 1895 to the present over more than a century, and provides detailed descriptions, interpretations, and analyses of representative literary trends, schools, theories, criticism, andworks during this historical period.