21st Century Chinese Literature Series -- Children's Literature 2002

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Features: In recent years, I have been concerned with the theoretical innovation of modern literary history. Throughout the two-century literary history of China, in the transitional era when one century ends and another begins, we are both aware of its penetration into our spiritual lives today and can temporarily confirm a period concept through the passage of time. Many historical enigmas may be grasped and explained from a complete perspective, and they may also inspire today's creation. We need a new academic category to re-recognize and interpret the literary history phenomena within it, making it a discipline closely related to contemporary life and full of inspirational significance.
The exploration of how the art of the essay breaks through has interested me for a few years. I believe that the concept of the "essay" is somewhat similar to that of poetry—it is both a very difficult genre to define and a very difficult genre to standardize in rhetorical terms. For example, when we read some novels, poems, or even dramas that are not standardized in artistic form, we often call them "essayistic," such as "essayistic novels" or "essayistic poems." This shows that the essay encompasses a wide range, as it can permeate various genres and play a role in subverting rigid artistic forms. Through dilution, dissolution, and subversion, strict formal norms give rise to new artistic vitality.
So, is there an essay that can be called "essayistic"?