Myth and Modernity

Author: Fu Guangming, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: A university without walls, a forum for academic debate, a hall carrying culture, a corner of literary spirit, and a pure land for spreading knowledge. In the history of modern literature, literary lectures have a fine tradition, with many great writers and scholars also being outstanding orators. The Literature Museum aims to inherit this legacy, providing a platform for them to continue this excellent cultural tradition. Great writers must possess noble sentiments and high moral character. Regardless of the era, readers always hope to engage with such writers and achieve spiritual resonance. In reality, without such spiritual depth and personal strength as the foundation, creative success is impossible. Human beings are inherently small and fragile, but only their thoughts, spirit, and artistic beauty can remain undiminished even when their physical forms are destroyed. Artistic beauty is noble and eternal.
The China Modern Literature Museum has selected a collection of lectures, gathering classic theories from numerous renowned scholars and discussing the yearning for "myth" and the helplessness toward "modernity" under the influence of Eastern and Western traditional cultures. The collection includes works such as Xu Baogeng's The Modernity of Greek Mythology, Zheng Jiadong's "Tradition" Means to Us, Tang Wenfang's A Deep Comparison of Chinese and American Values, Zhao Ning's Female Writers, Women, and Writers, Ge Fei's Experience, Imagination, and Reality—Literary Writing in the Context of Globalization, Shu Yi's Lao She's Hobbies, Feng Qiyong's On the Ideology of Dream of the Red Chamber, and Guo Xiaocong's Lu Yao's Poetic Spirit—Lu Yao Through the Eyes of a Reader.