Contemporary Literature
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Contemporary Literature
The concept of “the 17 Years Literature" usually refers to the period of Chinese literature between the founding of New China and the something. During this period, many works on the theme of heroes and revolutions sprang up.
Examples include The Builder by Liu Qing, The Song of Youth by Yang Mo, Tracks in the Snowy Forest by Qu Bo, Keep the Red Flag Flying by Liang Bin, The Red Sun by Wu Qiang, and Red Crag by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan.
Chinese literature experienced a decline during the something but recovered rapidly and won new prosperity after the reform and opening up in 1978.
The literature of the period from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1980s, often called “scar literature” or “literature of the wounded", discusses the experiences of youths with great though not complete frankness. Class Counsellor by Liu Xinwu is one of the earliest examples of this kind of literature.
