The Scar Literature After "The Culture Revolution"

• During “the Cultural Revolution”, many educated youngsters were involved in the “countryside sports”. The emergence of the "scar literature" directly resulted from it, which mainly describes the tragic experience of the educated youth, intellectuals, persecuted officials and ordinary people in urban and rural areas.
• The representative works of "the Scar Literature" include: "The Head Teacher""The ScarXu Mao and His Daughters""Kid from the Forest"
• One early novel is named “The Head teacher”，published in 1977,which was commented to have the similar influence as “The Madman's Diary ” by Lu Xun.
• In another novel"The Scar",the little Red Guard——Wang Xiaohua, accused her mother as a “traitor”.

It makes us reflect: Politics  & stance  VS  ethics & emotion
 Which is more important? Which is more reliable?

• Generally, “The Scar Literature” focused on the superficial description full of emotional anger, lacking in profound thoughts about the tragic. But it reflected a series of social problems, thus featured with the nature of humanity.