In the Perspective of the History of Ideas: Chinese Contemporary and Modern Literature

Author: Liu Zhong
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The emergence of modern Chinese literature is closely tied to the national crisis of survival and salvation, as well as the cultural crisis of value collisions. Centered around the issues of human liberation and the reconstruction of the nation-state, various Western social thoughts flowed into China, being widely disseminated by intellectuals as cultural resources for "new citizens," "enlightenment," and "revolution." Among these, literature not only responds to and promotes ideas but also generates and constructs them. This book adopts a problem-based research approach, taking an aesthetic and intellectual perspective to organize and review the major trends that have influenced the development of Chinese literature since the May Fourth Movement. It offers both the depth of intellectual history and the vividness of literary history.