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Literary Activities among the “Educated Youth”: Background on Bei Dao’s Waves

  • SUZUKI Masahisa
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  • Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 186‐8601, Japan

Published date: 15 Sep 2017

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2017 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

This paper discusses how the literature was created based on the experiences of the “Educated Youth” in the reform and opening‐up era. Firstly, the author summarizes the network and literary activities of the Educated Youth. Second, he analyzes the poetry of literary magazines that they expressed their own experiences in the reform era, and thirdly, he discusses the trial by the magazine’s editorial staff to describe their experiences in fiction and its difficulties. Furthermore, this paper examines the origin of Chinese literature on 1980s, especially the origin of modernism literature in China.

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SUZUKI Masahisa . Literary Activities among the “Educated Youth”: Background on Bei Dao’s Waves[J]. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2017 , 11(3) : 462 -487 . DOI: 10.3868/s010-006-017-0024-9

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