Yu Hua’s creative evolution — from a storyteller to an observer
Abstract
Yu Hua is one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese writers. He emerged in the second half of the 1980s as one of the so-called ‘avant-garde writers’ and achieved nationwide success with his 1992 novel ‘To Live’. His other works include the novels Cries in the Drizzle (1991) Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995), Brothers (2005). In this article we attempt to trace Yu Hua’s literary career and to present it as a succession of stages during which Yu Hua has managed not only to start his literary career as one of the subversive voices of the late 1980s, but also to find his feet in the rapidly commercializing entertainment of the 1990s as a skillful storyteller, and by the late 2000s Yu Hua’s stance on China had morphed into that of an observer with a deeply individual view of Chinese modernity. Refs 17.
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Yu Hua, Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese postmodernism
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2015-09-21
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Сидоренко, А. Ю. (2015). Yu Hua’s creative evolution — from a storyteller to an observer. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (3), 134–144. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/1744
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