Zero pain

Author: Hong Zigang
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: There's a joke in the literary world that if you can't write poetry, you can write novels; if you can't write novels, you can write essays; if you can't write essays, you can engage in theory; if you can't handle theory, you can do criticism; and if you can't do criticism, you're basically done—just like in football, if you can't play in the Jia A league, you go to the Jia B league. This joke reflects a corrupt notion of genre hierarchy. Where hierarchy exists, there is power struggle, and every genre tries to occupy the central position. The evolution of ancient Chinese literary genres actually hides a history of discourse power struggles. This book mainly includes: The Call for Genre Independence in the Era; Looking at the Sea Backwards; Ten Rules for Bourgeois Life; Ten Reasons Not to Watch TV Dramas; The Ten "Secrets" of Seeking Popularity; The Body Without Secrets; Being a Woman is Fine; The Aesthetics of the Navel; I Am What I Show; The Value of "Privacy"; From "Clean Mouth" to "Picking Beans"; "Cloning" a Bride; Why I Like Whipping; Doing Harm Just a Little Every Day; The Fearful Life in the Information Age; After the Moon Disappears; Stir-Frying "Death"; The Disgusting Cheese; Listening to Jokes; Late-Night Talk: Sharing Hardship?; On "Fighting Spirit"; There's Something Called Dignity in Life; Why the Soul Is Getting Weaker; The Wonderful Art of "Feigning Ignorance"; Alternative Experiences; Seeking Echoes Beyond the String; Drunkenly Lying Among the Literary Works, and more.