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= Republican Literature =
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= Emergence of modern Chinese literature =
  
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= Historical and cultural background late Qing =
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* Genre development in China, scholars as authors, Mandarin & Butterfly School
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* Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791, transl. David Hawkes, John Minford
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= Encounter with the West, Westernization =
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* Wu Jianren, New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
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* Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
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* Secondary Literature:
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** Wang, David Derwei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
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** Wang, David Derwei. “Translating Modernity.” Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 303-330.
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** Wang Dun (王敦). “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910”, in: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.2, September 2008: 37-61
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** John Fitzgerald, The Unfinished History of China's Future, in: Thesis Eleven 1999 57:17, here pp. 21-23, http://the.sagepub.com/content/57/1/17
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= May Fourth iconoclasm - Historical and cultural background May Fourth =
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* Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
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* Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139
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= The role of translations and translators =
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* Yan Fu
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* Lin Shu
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* the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]
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* the selection process and intention of translations
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= Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature =
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* McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
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* [[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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** Lu Xun: Preface to the first collection of Short Stories "Call to arms" 1922 (LG:3-7), A Madman's Diary 1918 (LG:8-16), Kong Yiji 1919 (LG:17-21)
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** Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
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** "Hometown" http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Home [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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= Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism =
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* Required reading: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/publications/research/soc.htm
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* Further reading: Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
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* Crescent Moon
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* Creation Society
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* Yu Dafu, "Sinking" 1921 [31-55], Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
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* [[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]]  [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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** Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920
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= Literature of the 1930s =
 
*[[Qian ZhongShu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 
*[[Qian ZhongShu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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*[[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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** Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, "Fortress besieged" 1947
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*[[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]] [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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= Women writers =
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* Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
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* Zhang Ailing, "Sealed Off" [174-183], "Zhang Ailing", in: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, p. 680
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* [[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]]  [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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* Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
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* Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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= The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action =
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* Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
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* Mao's claim of Lu Xun
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= The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification =
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* Mao Zedong, Poems, Talks in Yan'an: Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms, 1938, D1996:433-435
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* Ding Ling, "When I Was in Hsia Village" [132-46]
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* Mao Dun and "Spring Silkworms" [56-73]
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= Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature =
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* [[Wang Meng]] [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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* Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
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* Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
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* Ba Jin: Family and the self-censorship in the later edition
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= On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie =
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* Bing Xin
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* Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
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= Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic =
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* McDougall and Louie, 189-321; focus on pages 189-207
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* Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season" [115-24]
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* Regional literature
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* Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao" [82-94]
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* "Meijin, Baozi, and the White Kid" [in China: A Traveler's Liteary Companion]
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= Post-Revolutionary Literature; Cultural Revolution =
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* "Red Detachment of Women" [Film Viewing]
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= Post-Mao Literature, Scars and realism, Roots literature =
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* McDougall and Louie, 325-448; focus on pages 325-44
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* Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
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* Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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= Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo =
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* Mo Yan 莫言 "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
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* Mo Yan 莫言, 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
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* Yu Hua, "Brothers"
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* Jia Pingwa
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* Wang Shuo
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= Contemporary Women authors =
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* Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist
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= Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present =
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* Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
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* Yu Hua, "On the Road at Eighteen" [439-44]
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** modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
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* Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s
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= Taiwan literature =
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* Zhang Dachun, "Lucky Worries About His Country" (403-416)
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* Zhu Tianwen, "Fin de Siècle Splendor" [388-402]
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= Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism =
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* Yu Dan 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian (易中天)
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* Alai
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= Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature =
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* Xu Zechen (徐则臣), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick
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* Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets
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= Between cult and celebrity =
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* Cult author Guo Jingming
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** Book series "Bestseller"
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** Guo Jingming (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river
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* Cult author Mian Mian
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** Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex
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= Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors =
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* Triple door
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* His Land
  
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*[[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]]  [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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= Blog, Web and Fan literature =
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* Blogs (blog literature?), from web to paper literature
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* Ai Weiwei, Han Han, Annie Baobei
  
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= Contemporary Literature (since 1949) =
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= Fan literature =
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*[[Wang Meng]] [[Special:Contributions/161.28.62.242|161.28.62.242]] 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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* Web literature portal qidian.com

Revision as of 06:28, 8 October 2012

Emergence of modern Chinese literature

Historical and cultural background late Qing

  • Genre development in China, scholars as authors, Mandarin & Butterfly School
  • Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791, transl. David Hawkes, John Minford

Encounter with the West, Westernization

  • Wu Jianren, New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
  • Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
  • Secondary Literature:
    • Wang, David Derwei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
    • Wang, David Derwei. “Translating Modernity.” Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 303-330.
    • Wang Dun (王敦). “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910”, in: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.2, September 2008: 37-61
    • John Fitzgerald, The Unfinished History of China's Future, in: Thesis Eleven 1999 57:17, here pp. 21-23, http://the.sagepub.com/content/57/1/17

May Fourth iconoclasm - Historical and cultural background May Fourth

  • Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
  • Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139

The role of translations and translators

  • Yan Fu
  • Lin Shu
  • the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]
  • the selection process and intention of translations

Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature

Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism

Literature of the 1930s

Women writers

  • Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
  • Zhang Ailing, "Sealed Off" [174-183], "Zhang Ailing", in: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, p. 680
  • Ling Shuhua (1900-1990) Mattstrock 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
  • Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]

The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action

  • Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
  • Mao's claim of Lu Xun

The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification

  • Mao Zedong, Poems, Talks in Yan'an: Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms, 1938, D1996:433-435
  • Ding Ling, "When I Was in Hsia Village" [132-46]
  • Mao Dun and "Spring Silkworms" [56-73]

Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature

  • Wang Meng 161.28.62.242 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
  • Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
  • Ba Jin: Family and the self-censorship in the later edition

On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie

  • Bing Xin
  • Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings

Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic

  • McDougall and Louie, 189-321; focus on pages 189-207
  • Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season" [115-24]
  • Regional literature
  • Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao" [82-94]
  • "Meijin, Baozi, and the White Kid" [in China: A Traveler's Liteary Companion]

Post-Revolutionary Literature; Cultural Revolution

  • "Red Detachment of Women" [Film Viewing]

Post-Mao Literature, Scars and realism, Roots literature

  • McDougall and Louie, 325-448; focus on pages 325-44
  • Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
  • Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]

Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo

  • Mo Yan 莫言 "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
  • Mo Yan 莫言, 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
  • Yu Hua, "Brothers"
  • Jia Pingwa
  • Wang Shuo

Contemporary Women authors

  • Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist

Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present

  • Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
  • Yu Hua, "On the Road at Eighteen" [439-44]
    • modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
  • Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s

Taiwan literature

  • Zhang Dachun, "Lucky Worries About His Country" (403-416)
  • Zhu Tianwen, "Fin de Siècle Splendor" [388-402]

Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism

  • Yu Dan 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian (易中天)
  • Alai

Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature

  • Xu Zechen (徐则臣), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick
  • Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets

Between cult and celebrity

  • Cult author Guo Jingming
    • Book series "Bestseller"
    • Guo Jingming (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river
  • Cult author Mian Mian
    • Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex

Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors

  • Triple door
  • His Land

Blog, Web and Fan literature

  • Blogs (blog literature?), from web to paper literature
  • Ai Weiwei, Han Han, Annie Baobei

Fan literature

  • Web literature portal qidian.com
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