History of the Development of Contemporary Chinese Prose and Reportage

Author: She Shusen / Chen Xuguang
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Publish Date: 1996-08-01
Features: This book traces the development of prose in the contemporary era directly back to its connection with the random transmission of literary practices in base areas, revealing the significant influence of "Yan'an Prose" on contemporary prose. It raises clear propositions such as the shift from "journalist literature" to "writer literature," from news-oriented to literary-oriented, and from "battlefield reports" to "construction site reports." These propositions are all refinements of derived from practical observations. The examination of prose and reportage extends into the 1990s. Its scope captures some important and meaningful practices that have recently occurred. This challenging "close-range" examination makes the book's "contemporaneity" even more. For example, the analysis of the relative stagnation in the field of prose during the initial stage of the new era, amidst the rise of various literary trends, and the revelation of its "silence and decline in a 'lyrical' atmosphere," are both unique and perceptive.