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		the literature, Scar and Rethink	2014-01-21 11:41:50

The literature, Scar and Rethink

Ming Cheng

The so called scar literature were the most acclaimed and influential works for Chinese students in early 80s when the whole nation was just recovered from CR Cultural Revolution.

Having recreated for bitter life of blood and sweat, it is easy to be sympathetic with those suffered during the CR. It is understandable that writers of such historic memories felt into the pattern of writing and focusing on the tribulations. With all due respect to their job well done, however, more recently, I found myself not so satisfied with such sentimental and subdued reflection on the CR anymore, even for many, the wounds have yet to heal.

Rethink of CR after almost half century, politics aside, the literature should more focus on the evolution and change of consciousness and culture of our nation that happened during the historical period. To my mind, that is the most negative and neglected aspect of CR, or any human revolution.

Human nature is the eternal themes of social literature, if it has one. CR remains as a part of our history that we can not evade and pretend to forget. It will be a glorious day for our nation when we can learn a right lesson from Cultural Revolution and the part of humanity we lost can be rebuilt.

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留言时间：2014-01-22 11:40:31

too many connotations of being quintessentially

After Cultural Revolution that almost extinguished all sources and known talents of the nation for literature, a wave of flourishing literature works appeared out before us . the fresh force for change were those who had been sent to big grass fields or high mountains to work for years. In the big school of real life, they had learned about life, thinking and writing. They were urgent to tell people what they had experienced and learned with all kind of missions they put on their shoulds.

Therefore, we have seen that their works have carried too much moral weight of advisory remarks and philosophical thinking. More often than not, those works are more like a life lecture than a literacy tales, or at least both. They tell you what you should think , rather than to let you think by yourselves. If we compare some of those works with Border town by shen congwen. that is elegant , sad but beautiful. with eschewing any didacticism, not even a little.

However, The traditional aesthetics of china has a mode of " poetry express will " and " writing carry doctrine " on the function of literature and art