The Maihe River: Literary Writing about Land and Thoughts on Modernity
SONG Xueqing , ZHANG Lijun
Front. Lit. Stud. China ›› 2023, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2) : 172 -182.
The Maihe River: Literary Writing about Land and Thoughts on Modernity
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.
Guan Renshan / The Maihe River / realism / rural trilogy
Higher Education Press
/
| 〈 |
|
〉 |
PDF
(478KB)
