2006 Chinese Short Story Classics

Author: Wu Yiqin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In the current era, the veneration of classics is 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 one hand, classics, as the foundation 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 unconsciously obscure and negate contemporary literature. It can be said that how to face and properly understand the concept of "classics" is a sharp issue that contemporary Chinese literature must confront and address. The book includes works such as "The Story of Picking Up an Infant," "I Am the Person I Imagined," "An Old Man and a Black Dog," "A Field of Buckwheat," "A Flowing Banquet," "The White-Eyed Wolf," "Two Peepers," and "Odd and Even" among others.