Welcome to the 19th edition of Changpian, a selection of feature and opinion writing in Chinese.
Posted in Book reviews, Literature Leave a comment Dongguan in photos Zhu also mentions that people watched rebroadcasts of World Cup soccer matches over drinks in the’80s.įrom Franz Kafka and William Faulkner to Alain Robbe-Grillet, Juan Rulfo and Jorge Luis Borges, and from Jean-Paul Sartre to Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein-the discussions about the literary figures and their works were “like swallowing a date whole due to longtime hunger”, Zhu writes. And after eating watermelon under streetlamps, the people would walk along a city street to another author Zheng Wanlong’s house. In the preface of his new book, Chong Du Bashi Niandai (Reread the 1980s), literary critic Zhu Wei describes scenes from the decade in Beijing, saying that people would talk about literature all night long, or hang out like “lovers”, walking from modern author Zhang Chengzhi’s house to fellow writer Li Tuo’s. After China’s reform and opening-up began in the late 1970s, the following decade saw a burst of literary activity, with today’s influential writers shaping their ideas and words back then. Chong Du Bashi Niandai (Reread the 1980s), by Zhu Wei.
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