Humanities imagination

Author: He Guimei
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book explores the more than 30 years from the Cultural Revolution to the present, focusing on some cutting-edge issues in contemporary China (Mainland) in terms of thought, culture, and literature. The intended arguments include: first, providing a historical outline of the evolution of contemporary humanities thought; second, examining different aspects of important cultural phenomena using cultural studies methods; and third, extending these thought/cultural propositions to the study of 20th-century Chinese literary history, thereby roughly outlining the historical shape and symptomatic problematics of contemporary Chinese thought/culture. A monograph on modern and contemporary literary studies. The author addresses the phenomenon where scholars since the 1980s have become overly focused on "pure literature," leading to a closed state of literary criticism, by actively exploring an open research approach. On one hand, this involves moving beyond literary studies to gain an interdisciplinary perspective that can engage in contemporary social discussions, and on the other hand, it involves placing literary issues within a new critical framework for re-theorization and creating interactive connections with public discourse. Following this approach, a series of major issues in the history of modern and contemporary literature have been reinterpreted.