2006-Classic Chinese Short Stories

Author: Wu Yiqin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In the current era, the veneration and adoration of classics are evolving into a symbolic spiritual practice. People imagine that by recalling and cherishing classics, they can resist the increasingly secularized and commercialized material trends. In this process, on the one hand, classics, as the cornerstone and origin of the history of human literature and civilization, have their value fully recognized and elaborated. On the other hand, the sanctification and mystification of classics also constitute an unconscious concealment and negation of contemporary literature. It can be said that how to face and properly understand "classics" is a sharp issue that contemporary Chinese literature must confront and address.