New Image of Farmers and Narrative Logic: A Comparison between Guan Renshan’s Golden Valley and Silver Mountain and Liu Qing’s Builders of a New Life

Abstract

Guan Renshan’s full-length novel Golden Valley and Silver Mountain focuses on the depiction of rural life in an era of profound transformation. Notably, the novel refers to Builders of a New Life, Liu Qing’s representative work five times. This indicates that the conception and writing of Guan Renshan’s Golden Valley and Silver Mountain are significantly influenced and guided by Liu Qing’s Builders of a New Life. This influence is manifested not only in the fact that Fan Shaoshan, the protagonist in Golden Valley and Silver Mountain, regards Builders of a New Life as a sacred existence, and the counterpart relationship between Fan Shaoshan and Liang Shengbao, the protagonist in Builders of a New Life, but also directly in the setting of characters relationships in the two novels.

Keywords

Guan Renshan / Golden Valley and Silver Mountain / Liu Qing / Builders of a New Life

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