Lazy Search for Old Dreams Record · Supplement Edition - China Warehouse · Literature Category

Author: Xia Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-14
Features: Xia Yan, known as the "century-old peer," is an important writer in modern Chinese literature. As a participant in many cultural and political events of 20th-century China, Xia Yan began writing his autobiographical memoir, Lazy Search for Old Dreams (Supplemented Edition), at the age of eighty-four. This work reveals the true faces of many significant historical events over half a century, providing valuable and abundant material for the study of modern Chinese literary history and film history. The account of the "Ten Years of the League of Left-Wing Writers," in particular, has garnered special attention from the literary world. An old man who has experienced the ups and downs of life, with a profound and reflective heart, lazily searches for old dreams, deliberately reflecting on his life, showing unwavering integrity and resilience even in his old age, leaving a lingering sense of admiration. Xia Yan (1900–1995) was from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. As a renowned modern writer and leader of revolutionary literary activities, the author began writing this autobiographical memoir at the age of eighty-four, revealing many important aspects of the past half-century through his personal experiences and observations. It provides significant and abundant material for the study of modern Chinese literary history and film history. Among these, the account of the "Ten Years of the League of Left-Wing Writers" is particularly noteworthy. This book uses the September 2000 edition published by the Life & Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore.