Centennial Youth Archives: A Study of the Youth Theme in 20th Century Chinese Fiction

Author: Liu Guangtao
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Chinese literature in the 20th century has an inseparable bond with the "youth theme." Establishing a century-old "literary archive" for youth culture, this book engages in rational reflection on youth culture. The main purpose and basic approach of the book are "to understand literary history through the history of youth and to understand the history of youth through literary history." In the specific discussions, the book primarily studies the history of 20th-century Chinese fiction from the perspective of "thematology," focusing on the organization of the "history of youth-themed subjects" and the "history of youth-themed thoughts." It explores the rich national, social, cultural, and literary connotations of the youth theme and its patterns of development and change over a century of literary history. Engels once said, "The character of an era is primarily the character of the youth." The "Centennial Youth Archive" records the "character of youth" and the diverse "images of youth" in different historical periods, which will also be beneficial for readers to further contemplate and explore issues such as "the life of the nation" and "the soul of the nation."