Gazes Within and Beyond Borders: Notes on Research on Contemporary Chinese Literature

About This Novel

The so-called "gaze within and outside the border" has two meanings. First, serious literature has "boundaries", which is a concept that needs to be reflected on, but does exist. When popular literature, film and television, animation, and games form a kind of "encirclement" around serious literature, today's literary research especially needs a perspective that can be both inside and outside. It is not only to find ways to dialogue with the times, but also to further "revitalize" today's serious literature and make it more leafy and colorful. The second is the cultural life of an era, which can be divided into center and periphery. When we stand within the "border" of serious literature and talk endlessly, what we say may be relatively close to the edge of the entire cultural life. There is nothing wrong with this, but as a literary researcher, you should have a clear understanding of this, and only then can you choose to pursue further specialization, historicization, or reflect from the margins and return to the center. This book is divided into four volumes. The first two volumes systematically review the history of contemporary literature from the perspective of "cities" such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Taipei, as well as the spectrum of "characters" such as new people, old people, teenagers, intellectuals, women, and villains. This perspective or genealogy transcends the distinction between serious and popular. The latter two series look for the key to explaining literary issues and the path to connect the inside and outside of literature from the perspective of academic history, history of ideological trends, literary imagination, writers' works and other special topics.

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