Selected Chinese Novellas from China in the Past 30 Years

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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Although this book only includes about ten medium-length novels, due to space constraints, the selection is quite rigorous. I dare not say that only these are the best medium-length novels of the past thirty years—there are many other works that are hard to part with, but at least they deserve to be called the most popular and influential masterpieces of the past thirty years. Holding this volume in hand will bring the joy of being overwhelmed by the beauty of the mountain path.
Medium-length novels are a genre that falls between long and short fiction, and their capacity is not small. The May Fourth Literary Revolution, initiated by Mr. Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q, still cannot compare to the extraordinary vitality of short fiction. We must acknowledge that in the history of modern and contemporary literature, medium-length novels have been relatively quiet for a long time. However, from the 1980s and 1990s to the present, the past thirty years have been a period of peak, flourishing, and high productivity for medium-length novels in Chinese literature, with their genre advantages fully demonstrated. The reasons behind this are truly worth in-depth study by literary historians. The current selection is from this brilliant and talented era.