1977-2002 Chinese Short Stories

Author: Li Jingze
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: In China, the debate between foxes and hedgehogs has always existed in literature from 1977 to 2002. Novelists dream of becoming hedgehogs, yearning for a solid Archimedean point from which they can lever the world. The effort to seek a point easily evolves into an obsessive passion for mapmaking; Where are we? Intellectuals? Humanistic ideals? Daily life? Margins? Folk culture? "The lower body"?