摘要
FOR Chinese literature, it is the best of times, and it is the worst of times, to quote the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’A Tale of Two Cities. Literary critic Zhu Dake laments the bleak wasteland that literature has become, while poet Ye Kuangzheng has simply declared it dead. Yet the year 2011 saw the publication of 4,000 fulllength works of ction in China. More than 30,000 writers also serialized their short stories online and made writing their careers, according to the Annual Report on China Literature 2011 - 2012 released by the Chinese Academy
FOR Chinese literature, it is the best of times, and it is the worst of times, to quote the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’A Tale of Two Cities. Literary critic Zhu Dake laments the bleak wasteland that literature has become, while poet Ye Kuangzheng has simply declared it dead. Yet the year 2011 saw the publication of 4,000 fulllength works of ction in China. More than 30,000 writers also serialized their short stories online and made writing their careers, according to the Annual Report on China Literature 2011 - 2012 released by the Chinese Academy
