Looking for Yagebu: Shanghai New Generation Writers' Collection

Author: Xue Shu
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: "Shanghai New Generation Writers Series" is a series jointly edited by the Shanghai Writers Association and Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. It publishes literary works created by young writers in Shanghai, showcasing the creative achievements of writers who have grown up in Shanghai in the 21st century in the literary field. This issue of "Shanghai New Generation Writers Series" includes five selected short stories and novellas by five young writers in recent years, including: Xue Shu's Searching for Yagebu, Teng Xiaolan's Ten Roses, Yu Dongtian's Dogs Are Not Wolves, Ren Xiaowen's Flying Carpet, and Ye ×'s Dream Burner. Xue Shu, one of Shanghai's new generation of writers, is not only skilled in writing urban stories, but her female-themed novels also focus on the love and marriage lives of urban women from another perspective. The value system of women is built on the emotional elements of her texts, and her unique, tangled, and difficult-to-follow plots vividly depict the complex and rich lives of urban women.