The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"
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Brief Introduction
*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.
Representative works
* The representative works :《The Head Teacher》《The Scar》《Xu Mao and His Daughters》《Kid from the Forest》
One early “Scar Literature” was named “The Head teacher”，published in 1977,which was commented to have the similar influence as “The Madman's Diary ” by Lu Xun.
General Comment
*“The Scar Literature” focused on the superficial description full of emotional anger, lacking in profound thoughts about the tragic. But it brought up a series of social problems, thus featured with the nature of humanity.
