2006 - Short Story - Selected Chinese Short Stories

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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book includes over a hundred excellent micro-fiction works by one hundred authors such as Teng Gang, Li Bo, Wan Bingsheng, Sun Shanyun, Qiu Chengli, Nan Zai Nang, Xu Guojiang, Xing Qingjie, Liu Xinwu, He Baoguo, and others. The unique brevity and precision of micro-fiction, its close proximity to life, alignment with the rhythm of contemporary society, ability to capture readers' aesthetic attention in a short time while leaving a lasting aesthetic aftertaste, are all vividly reflected in this book. As a new literary genre, micro-fiction truly emerged in the late 1970s. By the 1980s, it gained favor with newspaper supplements and quickly rose to prominence. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially with the Tangquanchi Writers' Meeting of 1990—the first theoretical symposium on micro-fiction—the concept of the "generation of micro-fiction writers" was explicitly proposed, marking the point at which micro-fiction writers were no longer mere scattered individuals. It can be said that by the early 1990s, micro-fiction had emerged as an independent literary form in the contemporary literary scene, and it was around that time that the idea of micro-fiction becoming one of the four major branches of fiction began to circulate.