Top 50 Chinese Novels - The Prophecy of Hourglass Street

Author: Chen Ran
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Publish Date: 2001-10-12
Features: The purpose of "Top 50 Chinese Novels" is clearly to review the achievements of contemporary Chinese fiction over the past two decades, to provide a summary of what has become literary history, and to offer a reference for literary history writing and other selections. It aims to provide readers who love literature with a relatively comprehensive and relatively complete reading that allows for a comprehensive understanding of the general picture of contemporary fiction creation over the past two decades. Over the span of two decades, several generations of writers with very different concepts, experiences, and mindsets have emerged, as well as a vast array of works with very different concerns, narratives, and styles. The selected works in "Top 50 Chinese Novels" (1978-2000) confirm this view to some extent. Chinese writers are constrained by historical traditions and realistic environments, and the development and changes in fiction creation and concepts cannot be separated from these traditions and realities. Around the 1970s, fiction began to show different pursuits and characteristics from the era of integration. As a form of imaginative and fictional writing, it gradually shed its simple political objectives and emphasized its didactic function. Issues related to human nature, such as the inner suffering of people, emotional needs, and ideological conflicts, began to be reflected and expressed in fiction.