The Contemporary Picture of Rural China: a Study of Rural Novels in the New Era
by Gu Xianming
About This Novel
Native novels are an important part of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and one of the important themes of modern and contemporary Chinese novels. From the late 1970s to the early 1900s, Chinese society was in a period of difficult transformation from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization. The collision and exchange between rural and urban areas, and the transformation and integration of tradition and modernity provided endless resources for the creation of rural novels. This book takes rural novels from the late 1970s to the early 1900s as the research object, deeply explores the themes and ideas of rural novels in multiple contexts, shows the rural scene under the tide of modernization, the fate of migrant workers in the process of urbanization, female pursuits under the dual structure of urban and rural areas, the collision of human nature in social transformation and development, and cultural choices in the context of globalization. From a diachronic perspective, it reveals some continuations and new qualities of rural novels in the new era over the past thirty years.
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