Transformed Styles - Contemporary Chinese Prose in the Social-Historical Depth

Author: Li Linrong
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book conducts an innovative multi-dimensional comprehensive study of the essay genre, which has long been placed at the bottom in the system of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. It not only focuses on a comprehensive examination of the evolution of Chinese essays in the past two decades from a sociocultural perspective but also provides an outline, case analysis, and exploration of the causes regarding the status and changes of Chinese essays in the entire system of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the 20th century, especially the (Lu Xun's essays), which are the most representative and controversial in terms of their ontology and historical trajectory.