Contemporary Chinese Literature History Tutorial (Second Edition)

Author: Chen Sihe
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Publish Date: 2007-07-01
Features: This book is a "literary history primarily composed of literary works." It guides the understanding of literary history concepts through the analysis of specific works, conveying the information of literary history. At the same time, it breaks the traditional monolithic integrated perspective of literary history, focusing on synchronic literary creation as the axis to construct a new overall presentation of literary creation, revealing the multi-dimensional spiritual phenomena of specific eras. The books several innovative core concepts of contemporary literary history research by the editor-in-chief Chen Sihe, such as "multi-dimensional," "latent writing," "folk cultural forms," "folk invisible structures," "folk idealism," and "the common and the nameless," to systematically organize the complex components and developmental trends of contemporary literary history. Based on literary phenomena, the book introduces literary movement materials and historical backgrounds while emphasizing the analysis of works, enabling learners to understand the spiritual traditions reflected in literary history through interpreting the works. The book divides contemporary literary history into three stages: 1949–1978, 1978–1989, and after the 1990s, conducting an in-depth and detailed analysis of the dominant characteristics of each stage—wartime cultural norms, new cultural norms during the peaceful construction period, and the pluralistic cultural state of the "nameless" era. This book serves as both a popular literary history textbook and a highly academic and exploratory work, suitable for college and university students, literary enthusiasts, and literary researchers as a reference.