Open our literary understanding

Author: Zhang Xinying
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features:
"Look, they are coming" (Preface) Literature is not opinion, life is not either (Afterword) Opening Our Literary Understanding
If literature is not the art of "ascending," but the art of "descending" — On The Record of Women's Leisure Chat
Opening Our Literary Understanding and Expanding the Life Perspective of Literature — Reflecting on "Literariness" from The Record of Women's Leisure Chat
Knowing Who I Am — A Discussion on Wei Wei's Novels
The Hard Riverbank and Flowing Water — Documentary and Fiction and Wang Anyi's Ideal of Writing
The Narrative of "We" — Wang Anyi's Writing in the Late 1990s
The Source of the Spirit of Fiction, the World of Life, and the Traditional Chinese Modern Language Creation — Preface to Lin Jianfa's 2003 China's Best Short Stories
Part Two
Listening to the "Voice of Speaking" from Writing
Ordinary and Extraordinary Hearts — Shi Tiesheng on the Earth's Night Watchers
— Zhang Wei on Endless Flow — Revisiting Zhang Wei
On Zhang Chengzhi's — From This Perspective, Ugly or Romantic
Appendix: Correspondence on
Wind and Flow — A Discussion on The Bell
A Random Thought on The Dictionary of Maqiao
Reading The Stele
Random Talk on History — Liu Zhenyun's Hometown: A World of Meaningless
Part Three
The Youthful Return of Avant-Garde Fiction and Literature
Returning to the 1980s: The Youthful Return of Avant-Garde Fiction and Literature
Ma Yuan's Impressions
Historical Communication of Communication Methods — Including a Comparison of Traditional and Western Novel Concepts
Absurdity, Dilemma, and Overcoming Ineffectiveness — A Review of Yu Hua's Novels
The Dissolution of Fear and the Value of Fear — On Can Xue's Novels
"Diffusive Text" and Others — Understanding Lv Xin
Space: The Significance of Chinese Avant-Garde Novelists' Influence from Borges
Part Four
The Heart of Flames
On Shen Congwen: From 1949 Onward
Lu Ling's "Heart" in His Later Years
Part Five
Border News
The Evolution of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Resistance — From Bei Dao to Cui Jian to Wang Shuo
Zhang Chu and the Spiritual Portrait of a Generation
Difficult Writing — A Discussion on Poets and Prose in the 1990s
With Prejudice, numbness, and Heartbeat — Preface to The 21st Century China Literature Series 2001 Best Prose
Border News — Preface to The 21st Century China Literature Series 2002 Prose
You Can Read It Piece by Piece — Preface to The New Century Chronicle Anthology 2003 Prose
Postscript: The Spirit of the Peninsula — Reflections on Reading Zhang Xinying