I'm Thinking: a Collection of Literary Criticisms

For readers who like writing and literary criticism, this is really a rare reference material! Stones from other mountains can attack jade! What a great teacher for getting started with literary criticism!

The author's evaluation of the novel is comprehensive, well-founded and clear. Especially the evaluation of Huang Yimei's book is impressive.

The 110,000-word collection of reviews doesn't seem like much, but each article is thoroughly digested. It's not the kind of empty post-reading experience. It can be seen that the author has really read it.

What kind of prose can have long-term vitality? "My Altay" undoubtedly gives the most convincing answer! Only by staying close to life, walking into life, embracing life, recording life simply, completely and meticulously, and dedicating the true face of life and ordinary life details to readers sincerely and naturally can we win the most generous praise and love from readers! This is also the most fundamental emotional and spiritual need of human beings! !

What kind of prose can have long-term vitality? "My Altay" undoubtedly gives the most convincing answer! Only by staying close to life, walking into life, embracing life, recording life simply, completely and meticulously, and dedicating the true face of life and ordinary life details to readers sincerely and naturally can we win the most generous praise and love from readers! This is also the most fundamental emotional and spiritual need of human beings!

Li Bihua's "Green Snake" is simply a wall-breaking work! Subverting the traditional mythological framework and tearing apart the truth about human nature and gender order with cold brushstrokes, it has great staying power.

From language, imagery to the core of the era, it is dismantled layer by layer, and the desolate aesthetics of Zhang Ailing and the practical significance of the novel are thoroughly explained. It is so profound!

In contemporary prose creation, Li Juan's writing has always been unique. While many writers focused on urban anxieties or rural changes, she turned her attention to the Xinjiang Altay wilderness, which was ignored by mainstream literature. She constructed a nomadic world full of vitality with the "Sheep Path" trilogy. Her unique narrative perspective and "de-symbolized" writing method opened up a new paradigm for contemporary wilderness writing. The core charm of "Sheep Path" lies in its abandonment of grand narratives and its persistence in microscopic perspectives. Traditional western literature is often keen on refining the "western spirit" and symbolizing the land and characters, but Li Juan always focuses on the trivial daily life of nomadic life from a "local" perspective. She does not create heroes or dramatize suffering, but as a participant, records the joys and sorrows of every inch of land, every cow and sheep, and every shepherd on the road to transition. The temperature of the goat's milk on the fingertips when milking the cows, the weight of the shoes sinking into the mud when driving the sheep, and the shape of the milk tea mist in the yurt. These seemingly insignificant details transform Altay from an abstract geographical concept into a real and tangible living space. They also make readers realize that the wasteland is not a dead and savage land, but a human world full of the rhythm of life. This kind of "de-symbolized" writing breaks the stereotype of regional writing and gives "Sheep Path" a sincerity that directly touches people's hearts. The uniqueness of the narrative perspective is the finishing touch of "Sheep Path". Li Juan's identity is complex and marginal - a Han girl involved in nomadic migration due to family livelihood, which gives her a dual perspective of "spectating" and "integrating". As an outsider, she can keenly capture the differences between nomadic life and Han farming culture: the embarrassment when first entering the yurt, the confusion when not understanding the language, and the clumsiness when transitioning. These details allow readers to immerse themselves into Altay from a "defamiliarization" perspective. As a participant, she integrates into the shepherd's life with sincerity and patience. She milks the cows with Zak's mother, goes to the mountains with Smahuli to find sheep, listens to the shepherd's transition stories on winter nights, and touches the shepherd's tenacity and optimism in daily interactions. This dual perspective makes the narrative both objective and warm, not only showing the Kazakh folk culture, but also conveying a strong sense of human warmth. What is even more rare is that Li Juan always maintains a clear understanding of her own identity, does not deliberately cater to or belittle herself, treats cultural differences with equal attention, and demonstrates an inclusive cultural mentality. In addition, Li Juan's childlike purity and curiosity add poetic flavor to the narrative of "Sheep Path". Away from the utility and complexity of the city, she was able to observe the wilderness with the most authentic eyes: stopping to trace an unknown wildflower, recording the color of the petals, the shape and touch of the stamens; being surprised by a newborn lamb, watching its weak body toddling on the grassland. In her writing, every tiny life has a unique value. Every flower, grass, alpaca and camel in the wilderness has become an existence worthy of being cherished. This delicate perception of life makes the text of "Sheep Path" transcend the objective record of nomadic life and sublimate it into a praise and awe of the essence of life. The value of "Sheep Path" lies not only in providing a new regional writing paradigm for contemporary literature, but also in that it allows us to learn to see the true nature of life again. Li Juan uses delicate brushstrokes to weave together the vastness of the wilderness and the warmth of fireworks. Between the rough nature and the vivid human world, a poetic flavor unique to Altay grows. This poetic and non-grand narrative is hidden only in the daily moments on the road to transition, but it is enough to allow readers to regain their love for nature and life in the fast-paced modern life.

Analyze "The Field of Life and Death" from the dual dimensions of national awakening and literary value, analyze its individual and collective struggle writing, and also interpret the work's style that combines primitiveness and modernity, accurately positioning its milestone status in literary history.

Taking "Sheep Road" as an entry point, this paper compares the grand narratives of traditional western literature, analyzes Li Juan's "de-symbolization" writing characteristics, and explores the warmth of her non-fiction writing, which provides a novel perspective for the study of regional writing.

This review takes the image of "Glazed Tiles" as the core and disassembles "Glazed Tiles" from multiple dimensions. The narrative analysis is delicate, the text and the era are accurately connected, and the analysis of the plight of women is extremely profound.

Focusing on the narrative innovation and spiritual core of "The Field of Life and Death", analyzing its non-linear structure's breakthrough in the traditional paradigm, and interpreting the narrative characteristics in combination with the reality of the Northeastern countryside, it provides unique insights into the literary history positioning of the work.

"Sheep Path" records the nomadic civilization and awakens the consciousness of life, analyzes its reflection on the disappearance of civilization in detail, connects the survival dilemma of modern society, and has both humanistic warmth and realistic reflection.

Digging deeply into the spiritual breakthrough and predicament of the times for women in "Glazed Tiles", using the growth of the heart as an incision to analyze the core of female independence, it not only interprets the literary value of the text, but also connects modern gender issues, with profound intentions and realistic insights.

"My Altay" records the symbiosis of life and nature in the grasslands and Gobi with the pen of an eyewitness, injecting a fresh and deep border atmosphere into contemporary prose.

"The First Half of My Life" uses the city as a mirror to pierce the illusion of marriage, outline the sharp rebirth of women from dependence to independence, and write an uncompromising survival fable.

"The Story of a Rose" uses a flower as a pen to describe the ups and downs of a woman's love life for half her life, and finally completes the profound practice from dependence to self-dominance in the accumulation of time.

Where the agarwood burns out, the glitz turns to ashes. A flashback of the past reflects the cultural decline and alienation of human nature in the colonial era. It is a gorgeous epitaph written by Eileen Chang for the fallen.

Old legends are completely reconstructed by lust and whispers, and Green Snake's perspective is like a sharp knife cutting through the hypocritical texture of myths. The demons in Li Bihua's works are no longer demons, but the earliest awakened female souls.

I never thought that The Legend of White Snake could be interpreted so poignantly and compassionately. Complete a gorgeous power grab between the smoke of lust and the sting of awakening.

The author's comment on Green Snake really spoke to my heart. It clearly revealed the human nature under the shell of myth. After reading it, I went back and read the original work again.

I originally wanted to read literary reviews to relieve my boredom, but the author has thoroughly picked out the works of writers such as Zhang Ailing and Li Bihua. The more I read, the more interesting they become.

As an ordinary reader, I was originally a little afraid of boring literary criticism. As a result, this book is very easy to understand in vernacular, and I can get a lot of points that I didn't pay attention to when reading the works.

I really feel a bit unsatisfied after reading this. The author's interpretation of "industry life" is very realistic. It is not just about literature, but also the flavor of life behind it.

This book connects literary works with reality from a very fresh perspective. It is not an old-fashioned analysis routine, it is very different.