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Ballads are poetry that travels in the mouths of the people, and new poetry is a literary style that opened up a new world and combined new experiences during the modern transformation of the Chinese language. Due to special historical opportunities, Chinese new poetry in the 20th century made many efforts to use ballads as resources. This book traces the history of many practices of combining new poetry with ballads in the 20th century, and focuses on the rich practice of "new poetry balladization" in the 1940s under two different literary systems, the Kuomintang-controlled areas and the liberated areas. By carefully reading the representative poems of He Qifang, Ai Qing, Yuan Shuipai, Li Ji, Ruan Zhangjing and others, it shows the different stylistic boundaries of new poetry and ballads, as well as the complex historical progression of Geng ballads into new poetry.

This book takes novels and poetry in eastern Guangdong since the new century as its main research object. It not only provides an overall discussion of regional phenomena, but also provides case studies on novelists such as Chen Jiping, Lin Yuanye, Chen Chongzheng, Lin Peiyuan, Wu Chun, and Chen Runting, and poets such as You Zijin, Huang Wan, Ruan Xuefang, Lu Yanjiang, and Xin Qianer. Microscopically witness the spiritual tide of narrative and lyrical fields in eastern Guangdong in recent years.