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This book is divided into two parts: Chinese modern novels and Chinese contemporary novels. The chapters of the whole book are mainly arranged with time as the longitude and specific writers' works as the latitude. In terms of the selection of chapters, this book covers the major novelists and representative works of different literary schools covered in the course on the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. It also includes new works that caused great repercussions in that year or have appeared since the 21st century (mainly works that won the Mao Dun Literature Award). In terms of specific content arrangement, each chapter includes three parts: an introduction to the author, an introduction to the work, and after-class exercises. This book focuses on the analysis of the novel's themes, ideas, and artistic features from two dimensions: writers and works. It aims to guide readers to comprehensively understand the outstanding creative achievements and splendid style of Chinese modern and contemporary novels, grasp the laws of development and evolution of Chinese modern and contemporary novels, and thereby improve readers' ability to analyze and appreciate novels.

Chinese prose has a long history. Thousands of years of prose creation, whether lyrical, expressing aspirations, describing scenes, or expressing feelings about people... All reflect the changes of the times and people's thoughts and emotions. These fine traditions of Chinese prose have not only been fully inherited in the new literature since the 20th century, but have also continued to innovate and develop. In order to demonstrate the creative achievements of Chinese prose since the twentieth century, we edited and published thirty types of "Chinese Prose Collection" at the beginning of the new century. Since 2005, we have selected 26 types on this basis and published them as the first and second series of "Chinese Prose Illustrated Collection Edition". This time ten more types were selected and published as the third volume.

This book takes novels since the 21st century as the research object, takes "place" as the research perspective, adopts a research method that combines case analysis and theoretical analysis, and analyzes the characteristics of local writing in novels in the new century from the three dimensions of city, countryside, and border areas. It also points out the many new literary characteristics of writers in this writing in terms of subject selection, theme presentation, aesthetic pursuit, and artistic form. Based on the overall observation and in-depth analysis of the research object, the literary value and literary historical significance of local writing in novels in the new century are summarized, and on this basis, its possible development direction is prospected.

The book "New Changes in Style and Academic Culture of the Southern Dynasties" systematically explores the new changes in representative literary styles such as Song Ci, Yongming style, quatrain style, and seven-character poetry in the Southern Dynasties. The whole book cross-uses the research methods of literature, history, and philology, and through the investigation of the academic style and gentry culture of the Southern Dynasties, it examines Yuefu's stylistic innovation of "making words with numbers" and the rise of nine-character poetry, Yongming's aesthetics of sound and rhythm, and the establishment of quatrain poetry. The cultural context, the establishment of the status of "Bai Liang Poetry" as the first chapter of the seven-character poem, and the self-literacy of the emerging scribes in the Southern Dynasties are innovatively discussed, showing the inner context of the Chinese literary style from the style of the Han and Wei Dynasties to the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

The "Student Reading Classics" series is a set of Chinese extracurricular readings compiled for primary and secondary school students. It selects classic works by many famous writers and is suitable for primary and secondary school students to read. Reading this series of books will not only improve your literary accomplishment, but also be of great benefit to your Chinese learning. It can also improve your writing level and exam-taking ability. This book is one of the series and contains dozens of fine essays by Mr. Guo Moruo.

This book takes the influential western novels since the new century as the research object. Based on the summary, analysis and arrangement of existing research results, this book starts from the three perspectives of historical disenchantment, rural nostalgia and poetic construction, sorting out and exploring the expression and development trends of western novels since the new century in terms of creative resources, theme expression, creative skills, stylistic form, narrative structure, language type, spiritual temperament and aesthetic charm. These aspects jointly construct the unique literary landscape of the west. In the process of giving an overall view of the creation of Western novels, we try to summarize and reveal the literary historical significance and aesthetic value reflected in the writing of Western novels since the new century, as well as the enlightenment it brings to contemporary Chinese literature.