History of Chinese Rural Fiction

Author: Ding Fan
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: During the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, the intense conflict between the two civilizations gave people a new perspective on traditional agricultural culture. The once romantic and poetic pastoral landscapes emerged from the mist, and the village, a microcosm of a static agricultural civilization, became the focus of attention for thinkers and artists. As a result, rural literature truly acquired its unique significance. In the global development of rural literature, modern Chinese rural fiction has undergone a complex and winding process of emergence, flourishing, transformation, disruption, return, and renewed evolution. As rural fiction, as a literary genre, gradually establishes its own aesthetic form in the process of development, corresponding theoretical understanding also gradually becomes clearer, richer, and more complex. The theoretical framework does not always align with the historical state of rural fiction, but in the pursuit and reconciliation of consistency, both theory and historical analysis can delve deeper, continuously approaching the essence of this vast existence—rural fiction.