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Capturing the Historical Poetry of the Period of “Great Social Transformation”—An Essay on the Creation Motive behind Lu Yao’s Ordinary World

  • LIANG Xiangyang
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  • Research Center for Lu Yao and Zhiqing Literature, Yan’an University, Yan’an 716000, China

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2022 Higher Education Press

Abstract

The birth of an outstanding literature is closely related to a writer's creation motive, thought and expression. Lu Yao's masterpiece Ordinary World (Pingfan de Shijie) spans a period of ten years and reflects panoramically the myriad of social formations, lifestyles and patterns of thought during China's social transformations between 1975 and 1985. Via an analysis of first-hand materials such as the memoirs and correspondences of Lu Yao, his relatives and editors, this essay systematically unravels the writer's main motive for composing the novel Ordinary World, in a renewed effort to unravel the mystery behind the creation of this literary classic.

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LIANG Xiangyang . Capturing the Historical Poetry of the Period of “Great Social Transformation”—An Essay on the Creation Motive behind Lu Yao’s Ordinary World[J]. Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2022 , 16(2) : 345 -364 . DOI: 10.3868/s010-011-022-0015-3

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