Flowers disappear in the time airport

Author: Chen Jingyao, Lü Jing, Peng Yongsheng (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The concept of "Post-80s" is purely a commercial outcome, its effectiveness in communication and memory aligning with the principles of a commercial society—simple and quick. Writers who live under this concept are, on one hand, fortunate, as the dark and arduous times when predecessors struggled to find recognition are reduced to a mere signing ceremony for them. However, the media holds today's young writers hostage, just as young writers hold the media hostage—they mutually extort each other. When "Post-80s" writing becomes a label or symbol, its literary significance is lost, and extraneous factors like age and physiology, seemingly unrelated to literature, become what gossip journalists and writers themselves value. A group of young writers who just started their careers were labeled "Post-80s," while subsequent generations, without any authorization, consciously include themselves under this label from the beginning of their writing journey. In fact, this is not a driving force for them but a deep wound. We should bid farewell to the "Post-80s" label and allow these young people in their early twenties to mature and become more rational in the face of reality. They should take on the responsibility of dismantling the "Post-80s myth" and give this fleeting symbol a perfect end. Young writers born in the 1980s describe people and things they are familiar with or unfamiliar with through the lens of their youth, filled with melancholy and helplessness, dreams and ideals, tangible emotional experiences, and even more profound and thought-provoking meanings. Flowers Lost in the Time Airport is a collection of essays, including traditional prose, (s), reviews, and (z). The writing is casual and unrestrained, revealing the authentic lives and emotions of this generation in more unconventional texts.