Shen Congwen's Border Town

Shen Congwen, “Border Town”
The lyrical narrative style in the works of Shen Congwen (1902-1988), the well-known Chinese writer of the twentieth century, lends a special critical manner to his works. The lyricism and poetry of Shen Congwen’s prose enter into a dialogue with the critical pathos of writers of the literary mainstream of the 1920s -1930s. Shen Congwen’s creative originality is defined by a place of his birth and consanguinity with tujia and miao nationalities, traditionally living in the territory of Fenghuang and Syansi districts. One of his most significant novels, “Border Town” (1934), written in the genre of utopia, shows not only the features of utopia but also of dystopia.
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Such structure seems transparent, as water in a stream, and does not contain the hidden sense, however such “superficial” structure is deep and difficult (Wang, 2011). Shen Congwen persisted that the form of a lyrical narration opens deeper semantic level, also possesses bigger criticism force, lyricism gives the chance to emphasize a creative component of language and human love of freedom in order to express any moral or political contradiction.
Yu Hua, “To Live”
Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Hangzhou, he is the son of medical doctors destined to make a career in dentistry. Constrained by that profession’s rigidity and unable to quell a need to create, Yu Hua started writing in 1983. Since that time he has published three novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. “To Live” is his second novel, it was published in 1994 and then adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. The movie was banned in China, making the novel a bestseller instantly and Hua an overnight celebrity.
“To Live” is an epic and heartbreaking story covering four decades of recent Chinese history. It begins in the 1930s around the time of China’s second war with Japan and continues into the late 1970s reform era. In between, Hua weaves great sorrow and struggle for Fugui and his family through the sanguinary Chinese Civil War, The

He enjoys betting, revelry, and prostitution. His pregnant wife goes to the brothel to implore him to come home with her. “To Live” starts with an absolutely unsurprising lead less than a third way into the book into the book Fugui would have debauched his family 's fortune and settle into the fair work of an agriculturist. His turmoil as a poor farmer confirms the Chinese saying "catastrophes never happen independently." The Nationalist Army compels him to leave his family and fight against the Communists. In absolute destitution and devastation after the common war, Fugui family lives an even more austere life under the land reform policy. He is resolved to make his child 's life finished at the penance of his little girl, a run of the mill primitive practice. The Great Leap Forward, which denies horticultural practice and orders surrender of all pots for purifying iron. The outcome is the most noticeably awful starvation in Chinese history that individuals would slaughter for a sweet