Hopeless love is gentle -- The Impact of Modern Chinese Writers' Marital and Love Lives on Their Creations: The Impact of Modern Chinese Writers' Marital and Love Lives on Their Creations

Author: Wang Mingjian
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This is a creative academic work that, based on first-hand materials, takes the marital and romantic lives of writers as a starting point to systematically examine the romantic experiences of famous writers, poets, and playwrights in modern Chinese literature, such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Tian Han, Xu Zhimo, Mao Dun, Lu Yin, Shi Pingmei, Ding Ling, Dai Wangshu, Xiao Hong, Eileen Chang, and He Qiying. It explores their related creations and mutual reflections, thereby investigating the intrinsic driving forces behind the creations of modern Chinese writers, the reasons for their works, and the causes of stylistic changes. The book resolves some long-standing puzzles in modern literature studies and restores the original faces of some works we are all familiar with.