Three Perspectives on Modern Rural Fiction

Author: Fan Jiajin
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book focuses on three important figures in 20th-century Chinese literature who depicted rural life—Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Zhao Shuli. Through an analysis and dissection of their rural novels and the journeys of their lives, it attempts to clarify and separate out three fundamental ideological, emotional, and artistic attitudes that modern Chinese writers have faced toward rural China since the 20th century. It explores various levels of literary and non-literary factors that constrain these attitudes and the artistic achievements of rural novels. Additionally, it aims to gain a certain degree of holistic understanding of the history of rural cognition and expression in China during the 20th century by examining these three case studies, thereby providing a more solid historical foundation and reference for rural cognition (not limited to literary cognition) in the new century.