Chinese Dreams: Chinese Literature, by Jake Burrell, 9 May 2012

Setting the clock back to the early 1980’s, the restrictions of Chinese society provided the perfect backdrop for imaginations to become ensnared in literature as a way of escaping economic and social hardships. For the children who grew up at the dawn of modern China, the hearts of young girls were captured by the romantic fiction of Qiong Yao, and the boys lost themselves in Jin Yong’s fantastical tales of martial arts heroes...