Contemporary World Realism: The Fallen and the Unwilling to Sink

Author: Yan Qi
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is a collection of social documentaries, divided into four parts: "Prisoners of Love," "The Fallen and Those Who Refuse to Sink," "The Upstarts," and "A Youthful Writer's Autobiography." It objectively and impartially reveals the survival forms, behaviors, and spiritual worlds of today's beings from multiple perspectives. Through this, readers can gain insights into the obscure corners of society, and more importantly, experience the transformation of human nature in the process of the contemporary era. The author, a journalist by profession, has worked for several news organizations in Beijing and is a senior editor and a member of the Chinese Writers' Association. To date, he has published over 30 works in various genres, including poetry, fiction, and documentary literature. His reportage "The World of Taxi Drivers" was published in "October" and was selected for the "1990-1991 National Excellent Reportage Annual Selection" and the "New Era Literary Masterpieces Series·Reportage Volume." He has won 11 national and provincial literary awards.