The Maihe River: Literary Writing about Land and Thoughts on Modernity

SONG Xueqing; ZHANG Lijun

doi:10.3868/s010-011-023-0016-4

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Front. Lit. Stud. China ›› 2023, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2) : 172-182. DOI: 10.3868/s010-011-023-0016-4

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The Maihe River: Literary Writing about Land and Thoughts on Modernity

SONG Xueqing¹ ,
ZHANG Lijun²

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The Maihe River by Guan Renshan returns to the literary principle of traditional realism and insists on the rural narrative based on daily experience. It is a novel that truly traces rural life, with a focus on the land circulation system and the fate of farmers. In the work, Guan Renshan integrates farmers’ love for the land into a culture of the land and a culture of wheat. Land worship and the trend of modern agricultural development in The Maihe River constitute a profound tension. In this novel, he investigates possibilities for rural modernization as well as reasonable and legitimate means to realize them.

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Guan Renshan / The Maihe River / realism / rural trilogy

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SONG Xueqing, ZHANG Lijun. The Maihe River: Literary Writing about Land and Thoughts on Modernity. Front. Lit. Stud. China, 2023, 17(2): 172‒182 https://doi.org/10.3868/s010-011-023-0016-4