Torn Old Dreams - An Introduction to Modern Chinese Nostalgic Prose

Author: Xu Zhiying
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: Nostalgia, which is both a human nature and a human right. Moreover, as society becomes more modernized, a mood and mindset characterized by "looking backward" may intensify and become a popular trend. Indeed, things from the past don't necessarily mean they are better than the present, but they are often like what Lu Xun said in the preface to Evening Chrysanthemums: they can become "a temptation of nostalgia." This "homeland" is no longer the geographical sense of "native place," but rather the overused "spiritual home" that humanity has lost. It can be said that as long as there are humans, there will be nostalgia, and there will be nostalgic essays. Conducting a systematic review of nostalgic essays in the history of modern Chinese literature may itself be a kind of journey similar to "nostalgia."