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 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
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