Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Literature (Revised Edition)

Author: Yu Kexun
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Publish Date: 2003-06-17
Features: This textbook is primarily designed to meet the needs of classroom teaching. It leaves ample room for teachers to prepare lessons and conduct classroom instruction, better enabling students to engage in independent thinking and extracurricular reading. Additionally, due to its length constraints, the textbook aims to present content more concisely and express ideas more succinctly. Therefore, it generally does not list the biographies of writers or summarize the plots of works. It also minimizes the use of common references and general interpretations or evaluations of individual writers and works. Instead, it focuses on discussing comprehensive and macro-level literary phenomena and issues, thereby better reflecting the characteristics of "history and theory" and leveraging its advantages and functions.
This book provides an in-depth and systematic overview of the development of literature since the founding of New China, with a particular focus on analyzing literary trends, representative works, and the artistic styles of key writers during this historical period. It objectively summarizes the process of the emergence and development of contemporary Chinese literature and the characteristics they exhibit, achieving a balance between historical analysis and theoretical discussion. The book possesses significant theoretical depth and academic value.