Modern and Contemporary: A Realist Analysis of Modern Chinese Literature

Author: Xie Zhixi
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Features: This book collects 10 academic papers and reviews by the author from recent years. They systematically re-examine the trends of the Anti-Japanese War and the new poetry and fiction movements of the 1940s, uncovering some noteworthy writers and schools, and presenting personal perspectives that differ from prevailing views. The book also discusses and clarifies certain issues in modern poetics and lost poetic essays, as well as expounding the author's personal views on the study of modern intellectual prose, modernist Shanghai fiction, and light literature with aesthetic tendencies. All the discussions are guided by the academic principles of "independent preparation of materials" and "independent thinking about problems," striving for factual and well-documented historical records and realistic and evidence-based arguments. This book can serve as a reference for modern literature scholars and enthusiasts.