Modern Chinese Literature Reflects Swiftly Changing Society
With an ever-expanding choice in reading material, literature in China works like a two-way mirror, providing readers with a look at alternate realities, and observers a peek at the shifting culture of a nation through the books on its collective bedside table.
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Great article about modern Chinese literature, however I would have liked to put the works of these Chinese writers more in context of the contemporary World Literature and also in the historical context of Chinese Literature of the past 70 years. In a way Milan Kundera did it in his essay "The Curtain" and Lu Xun did in his History of Chinese Literature. But of course I know what I am asking is almost impossible in the context of an article to be published in City Weekend.
Jean-Louis Piel, March 16, 2011, 1:26a.m.