Recommended Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Literature

1, "Ziyou"

"Ziyou", formerly known as "Sunset", a modern Chinese long novel, about 300,000 words. Mao Dun in October 1931 began to create, to December 5, 1932 finished draft, **** nineteen chapters. Some chapters were published in Novel Monthly and Literature Monthly respectively.

For more than half a century, Ziyou has not only had a wide readership in China, but has also been translated into more than a dozen languages, including English, German, Russian and Japanese, and has had a wide international impact.

The novel is set in the semi-feudal, semi-colonial old Shanghai in May and June 1930, and centers on Wu Sunfu, a national capitalist, and depicts the various contradictions and struggles in Chinese society at that time.

2. Home

Home, a full-length novel by Chinese writer Ba Jin, is the first of the Riptide Trilogy, the other two being Spring and Autumn. It was first serialized in The Times in 1931, originally titled Riptide. The first single-volume edition of Home was published in May 1933 by Kai Ming Books.

The novel depicts the evils and decadence of a large feudal family in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in the early 1920s, accuses the feudal system of destroying life, and glorifies the anti-feudal struggles of the young generation as well as the awakening of democratism.

3. March in a Small Town

March in a Small Town is a middle grade novel by Chinese writer Xiao Hong, written in July 1941 and published in August of the same year in Volume 1, Issue 2 of Times Literature.

It tells the story of a beautiful and kind-hearted girl's yearning and pursuit of freedom and happiness, as well as her eventual death, consumed by the traditional patriarchal system. This is a work of ideological and artistic purity, inheriting the author's consistent prose culture tone, with a unique narrative style, rendering an extremely ordinary love story bleak and mournful, bringing people a strong shock and reflection.

4. The Siege

The long novel by Qian Zhongshu is a satirical novel with a unique style in the history of modern Chinese literature. It is known as the "New Confucian History". The first edition was published in 1947 by Shanghai Morning Glory Publishing Company. The first edition was published by Shanghai Morning Light Publishing Company in 1947. The story is mainly about the group of intellectuals at the beginning of the war.

Siege of the City takes place in the 1920s and 1940s. The protagonist, Fang Hongzhi, is a young man from a squire's family in southern China, who is forced by family pressure to get engaged to a woman from his hometown, Zhou's family. However, while he is attending university, Zhou falls ill and dies prematurely. Mr. Zhou, his father-in-law-to-be, is moved by a message of condolence written by Fang and finances his education abroad.

5. "The Bauhinia Worker"

"The Bauhinia Worker" is a work of reportage by modern Chinese writer Xia Yan, written in 1935. In the form of reportage, the article "Bodyguards" describes the inhuman treatment of bodyguards in Shanghai and other places, as well as the brutal oppression of the bosses and other people who brought them to work.

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